All of my papers on topics related to the biological basis of economics are included in the list below, with other papers on topics such as game theory.

1. "Risk Perception" (with Nick Netzer, Jakub Steiner and Pavel Kocourek). 

2. The Evolutionary Origins of Preferences (with Larry Samuelson) monograph in preparation.

1. Review of "Individuality and Entanglement" by Herbert Gintis Journal of Economic Literature (2024) (2024) LXII: 325-27.

2. "Adaptive Utility" (with Lorne Whitehead and Nick Robalino) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2023) 211, 60-81.

3. "Decision Theory and Stochastic Growth" (with Larry Samuelson and Jakub Steiner) American Economic Review Insights (2023) 5, 357-376.

4. "Evolution of Risk Attitudes with Fertility Thresholds" (with Larry Samuelson) Journal of Economic Theory  (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2022.105552.

5. Review of "Game Theory in Biology: Concepts and Frontiers" by John M McNamara and Olof Leimar Journal of Economic Literature (2021) LIX 1, 658-659.

6. "Infanticide and Human Self-Domestication"  (with Erik Kimborough and Gord Meyers) Frontiers in Psychology  05 May 2021  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667334 .

7. "Evolved Attitudes to Risk and the Demand for Equity" (with Allen Orr) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2021) 118 (26) e2015569118. 

8. "Evolution, Local Risk and Skewness Loving" Theoretical Economics (with Yuval Heller) (2021) 16, 403-424.

9. "Biological and Anthropological Foundations of Economic Behavior" Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (with Nikolaus Robalino) (2019) DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.490.

10. "Evolved Attitudes to Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Risk in Age-Structured Populations" (with Larry Samuelson) Journal of Economic Theory (2019) 181: 44-81. With additional material.

11. "Certified Random: A New Order for Coauthorship" (with Debraj Ray) American Economic Review (2018) 108: 489-520.

12. "Applying `Theory of Mind': Theory and Experiments" (with Erik Kimbrough and Nikolaus Robalino) Games and Economic Behavior (2017) 106: 209-226.

13. "Group Selection: A Review Essay on 'Does Altruism Exist?'" by David Sloan Wilson Journal of Economic Literature (2017) 55: 1570-1582.

14. "Why Sex? and Why Only in Pairs?" (with Motty Perry and Phil Reny) Economic Journal  (2017) 127: 2730-2743.

15. "The Contributions of Suzanne Scotchmer to the Evolutionary Foundations of Economics" in On the Shoulders of Giants: Colleagues Remember Suzanne Scotchmer's Contributions to Economics (2017). Eddie Dekel and Stephen Maurer, eds. Cambridge University Press, 307-312.

16. "The Evolution of Strategic Sophistication" (with Nikolaus Robalino) American Economic Review (2016) 106: 1046-72 (with online Appendix).

17. "A Biological Theory of Public Discounting" (with Balázs Szentes) American Economic Review (2014) 104: 3481-97.

18. "Genes, Culture, and Preferences" (with Nikolaus Robalino) Biological Theory (2013) 8, 151-57.

19. "The Evolutionary Basis of Time Preference: Intergenerational Transfers and Sex" (with Balázs Szentes and Emil Iantchev) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 4(4) (2012) 172-201.

20. "The Economic Approach to Theory of Mind" (with Nikolaus Robalino) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Series B (2012) 367 1599 2224-2233.

21. "Status, Intertemporal Choice, and Risk-Taking" (with Debraj Ray) Econometrica 80 (2012) 1505-1531 (with online Appendix).

22. "The Evolutionary Optimality of Decision and Experienced Utility" (with Larry Samuelson) Theoretical Economics 6 (2011), 311-339.

23. "The Evolutionary Foundations of Preferences" (with Larry Samuelson) In Handbook of Social Economics (2011) Edited by Alberto Bisin and Matt Jackson, North-Holland, pp. 221-310.

24. "A Bioeconomic View of the Neolithic Transition to Agriculture" Canadian Journal of Economics, 43 (2010), 280-300.

25. "The Evolution of Time Preference with Aggregate Uncertainty" (with Larry Samuelson) American Economic Review, 99 (2009), 1925–53.

26. "We Age Because We Grow" (with Hillard Kaplan)  Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B: Biological Sciences, 2009, 1837-1844 (with Mathematical Appendix).

27. "Evolution of Time Preference by Natural Selection: Comment'' (with Balázs Szentes) American Economic Review 98 (2008), 1178-1188. (See also online material "An Extended Example".)

28. "Individual Decision Making and the Evolutionary Roots of Institutions" (with Richard McElreath, Robert Boyd, Gerd Gigerenzer, Andreas Glöckner, Peter Hammerstein, Robert Kurzban, Stefan Magen, Peter J. Richerson, and Jeffrey R. Stevens) In Better Than Conscious? Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications For InstitutionsEdited by Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer, MIT Press, 2008, pp. 325-342.

29. "Group Selection" The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave, Macmillan (2008).

30. "The Evolution of Diet, Brain and Life History among Primates and Humans" (with Hillard Kaplan, Steven Gangestad, Jane Lancaster, and Michael Gurven) In Guts, Brains, Food and the Social Life of Early Hominids. Leiden: University of Leiden Press, 2007, pp. 47-90.

31. "The Effect of Food Intake on Longevity" (with Tieman Woutersen) Economics Bulletin 26 (2007), 1-11.

32. "The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences" (with Larry Samuelson), American Economic Review P&P  97 (2007), 496-500.

33. "Why Do We Die? Economics, Biology, and Aging," (with Hillard Kaplan) American Economic Review P&P  97 (2007), 492-495.  (See also supplementary online material.)

34. "Viewpoint: The Economics of Hunter-Gatherer Societies and the Evolution of Human Characteristics," (with Hillard Kaplan), Canadian Journal of Economics, 39 (2006), 375-398.

35. "Complex Evolutionary Systems and the Red Queen", Economic Journal Symposium "Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems," 115 (2005) F211-F224.

36. "Reinterpreting Mixed Strategy Equilibria: A Unification of the Classical and Bayesian Views,'' (with Phil Reny) Games and Economic Behavior 48 (2004), 355-384.

37. "A Short Proof of the Harsanyi Purification Theorem," (with Phil Reny and Hari Govindan), Games and Economic Behavior (special issue in memory of Bob Rosenthal), 45 (2003), 369-374.

38. "Embodied Capital and the Evolutionary Economics of the Human Lifespan'' (with Hillard Kaplan and Jane Lancaster) Population and Development Review 29 Supplement (2003), 152-182.

39. "Imitation, Group Selection and Cooperation'' (with Philippe Gregoire) International Game Theory Review 5 (2003), 229-248.

40. "The Evolution of Intelligence and the Red Queen," Journal of Economic Theory 111 (2003), 1-22.

41. "The Evolution of Human Longevity and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies," (with Hillard Kaplan) American Economic Review 93 (2003), 150-169.

42. "Existence of Subgame Perfect Equilibrium with Public Randomization: A Short Proof,'' (with Phil Reny), Economics Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 24 (2002), 1-8.

43. "The Emergence of Humans: The Coevolution of Intelligence and Longevity with Intergenerational Transfers,'' (with Hillard Kaplan) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 99 (2002), 10221-10226.

44. "Evolution and Human Nature," Journal of Economic Perspectives 16 (2002), 89-106.  (Also "Comments" Journal of Economic Perspectives 17 (2003), 207-212.)

45. "Why Would Nature Give Individuals Utility Functions?" Journal of Political Economy, 109 (2001), 900-914.

46. "The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior,'' Journal of Economic Literature, 29 (2001), 11-33.

47. "Risky Business: Sexual and Asexual Reproduction in Variable Environments" (with Carl Bergstrom and Jonathan Pritchard), Journal of Theoretical Biology 197 (1999), 541-556.

48. "Forward Induction, Public Randomization and Admissibility" (with Srihari Govindan), Journal of Economic Theory 82 (1998), 451-457.

49. "Naive Adaptive Behavior and the Observability of Gambles", Games and Economic Behavior 24 (1998), 97-108.

50. "The Growth-Maximizing Distribution of Income", (with Myrna Wooders), International Economic Review, 38 (1997), 511-526.

51. "Efficient Equilibrium Selection in Evolutionary Games with Random Matching", (with Fernando Vega-Redondo), Journal of Economic Theory 70 (1996), 65-92.

52. "A Biological Basis for Expected and Non-Expected Utility", Journal of Economic Theory 68 (1996), 397-424.

53. "The Evolution of Attitudes to Risk: Lottery Tickets and Relative Wealth", Games and Economic Behavior 14 (1996), 190-207.

54. "The Existence of Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium in Continuous Games with Almost Perfect Information: A Case for Public Randomization,'' (with Chris Harris and Phil Reny), Econometrica 63 (1995), 507-544.

55. "The Evolution of Strategic Behavior", Canadian Journal of Economics 28 (1995), 17-41.

56. "An 'Informationally Robust Equilibrium' for Two-Person Nonzero Sum Games,'' Games and Economic Behavior 7 (1994), 233-245.

57. "Status, the Distribution of Wealth, Private and Social Attitudes to Risk", Econometrica 60 (1992), 837-857.

58. "An Introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory: Secret Handshakes, Sucker Punches and Efficiency", in Recent Developments in Game Theory, ed. by J. Creedy, J. Borland and J. Eichberger, 1992, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, England

59. "Subgame Perfect Equilibrium in Continuous Games of Perfect Information: An Elementary Approach to Existence and to Approximation by Discrete Games" (with Martin Hellwig, Wolfgang Leininger and Phil Reny), Journal of Economic Theory 52 (1990), 406-422.

60. "Efficiency in Evolutionary Games: Darwin, Nash and the Secret Handshake", Journal of Theoretical Biology 144 (1990), 379-396.

61. "Duopoly with Endogenous Strategic Timing: Stackelberg Regained," International Economic Review 31 (1990), 263-274.

62. "Stackelberg and Marshall," American Economic Review 80 (1990), 69-82.

63. "On the Uniqueness of Endogenous Strategic Timing,'' Canadian Journal of Economics 22 (1990), 917-921.

64. "The Existence of Nash Equilibria in Reaction Functions for Dynamic Models of Oligopoly," International Economic Review 27 (1986), 539- 544.

65. "An Optimal Dynamic Model of a Consumer Durable with an Age/Quality Structure: An Application for Optimal Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations" in: Optimal Control and Economic Analysis 2. G. Feichtinger (ed.), North-Holland, 1985.

66. "Dynamic Duopoly Under Demand Uncertainty," (with John McMillan), Canadian Journal of Economics 17 (1984), 695-698.

67. "Existence of Consistent Conjectures: Comment," American Economic Review 73 (1983), 454-456.

68. "OPEC Versus the West: A Robust Duopoly Solution," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 10 (1983), 18-34.

69. "Insurance as a Gi en Good" (with Michael Hoy), Economics Letters9 (1981), 47-51.

70. "Implicit Collusion is Destroyed by Uncertainty," Economics Letters 7 (1981), 75-80.

71. "Comparative Statics of the Market for a Consumer Durable with an Age/Quality Structure: A Reprise of Models of Urban Structure,"Journal of Urban Economics 11 (1982), 169-179.

72. "Sufficiency of the Pontryagin Conditions for Optimal Control When the Time Horizon is Free," Journal of Economic Theory 24 (1981), 437-445.

73. "Simple General Equilibrium and Trade with a Monopsonized Sector" (with J.R. Markusen), Canadian Journal of Economics 13 (1980), 668- 682.

74. "Sequential Exploitation of Uncertain Deposits of a Depletable Natural Resource," Journal of Economic Theory 21 (1979), 88-110.

75. "Costly Innovation and Natural Resources," International Economic Review 21 (1980), 17-30.

76. "Urban Structure, Gas Prices, and the Demand for Transportation" (with D.T. Scheffman), Journal of Urban Economics 6 (1979), 148-155.

77. "The Crunch, the Boom, and the Recreational Land Market" (with D.T. Scheffman), Canadian Journal of Economics XI (1978), 38-55, reprinted in the Appraisal Institute Magazine.

78. "The Effect of Urban Structure on the Concentration of Air Pollution,"Urban Studies 14 (1977), 89-93.

79. "Two Models of Urban Air Pollution," Journal of Urban Economics 3 (1976), 264-284.

80. "Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Use of Urban Land for Transportation,"Journal of Urban Economics 3 (1976), 180-191, reprinted in Kosokudoro to Jidosha (Expressways and Automobiles).