Pay More Tribute to Smart Ants: A Note on the Tullockian Environmental Coordination in Non–Human Societies
这篇短文用不动点论证形式化了Tullock关于环境如何协调非人类社会分工的论点,并指出塔洛克式环境协调与经济学中的瓦尔拉斯定价协调是更一般原理的特例。
We show in this short note that the thesis in Tullock (1994) about how the environment coordinates the division of labor in non-human societies can be formulated by the fixed-point argument. As such, both what maybe called the Tullockian environmental coordination and the conventional Walrasian pricing coordination in economics turn out to be special cases of a more general principle, into which further exploration remains to be made.