The Coevolution of Behaviors and Institutions - Agenda

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Friday, February 13

9:00-10:30 Jean-Paul Carvalho (Oxford University) A Theory of the Islamic Revival

11:00-12:30 Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School), Policy-Design When Preferences Depend on Incentives

2:00-3:30 Linda Vigilant, (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and Kevin Langergraber (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig), Evolutionary Effects of Group Competition Among Chimpanzees

4:00-5.30 Annie Bissonnette (Anthropological Institute of the University of Zurich), Leveling Coalitions in Non-Human Primates

Saturday, February 14

9:00-10:30 Abigail Barr (University of Oxford), Homo Aegualis: Cross-Cultural Experimental Evidence of Inequality Aversion

11:00 -12.30 Rob Boyd, (SFI and University of California-Los Angeles), The division of labor and the origins inequality

2:00-3:30 Ray Jackendoff, (Tufts University and SFI) The Cognitive Structure of Values, Fairness, and Reciprocity

3:30-5:00 Small groups

Sunday, February 15

9:00-10:30 Peter Lindert, (University of California-Davis), Ancient Inequality

10:45-12:15 Sam Bowles, (SFI and University of Siena), The Nature of Wealth and the Dynamics of Inequality in Pre-Modern Economies (based on research with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Tom Hertz, and 20 others)