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The
seminar is held in hybrid
format, in person (Múzeum
krt. 4/i Room 224) and
online.
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March (Friday) 4:15
PM Room 224 + ONLINE
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Maha
Royanian
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Logic and Philosophy of
Science MA,
Eötvös University Budapest
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Altruism
in economics
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Findings
in behavioral and experimental
economics suggest the relevance of
prosociality--exhibiting socially
beneficial behaviors including
altruism, cooperation,
reciprocity, and more--in economic
decisions. In this discussion, I
will consider altruism as a subset
of prosocial behavior, and present
evidence from behavioral
games--such as the dictator
game--suggesting the relevance of
altruistic behavior in economics
and also take into account
insights from neuroeconomics.
Overall, I support the claim that
it is possible to incorporate
prosocial tendencies into economic
models. Furthermore, I proceed to
provide an example for
implementing altruism in
microeconomic theory, particularly
regarding the utility function and
via social preferences.
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March (Friday) 4:15
PM Room 224 + ONLINE
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Paula
Reichert
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LMU,
Munich
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Essentially
ergodic behaviour
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This talk analyzes the ergodic
hypothesis in the context of
Boltzmann's late work in
statistical mechanics, where
Boltzmann lays the foundation
for what is today known as the
typicality account. I argue
that, based on the concepts of
stationarity of the measure and
typicality of the equilibrium
state, the ergodic hypothesis,
as an idealization, is a
consequence rather than an
assumption of Boltzmann's
approach. More precisely, it can
be shown that every system with
a stationary measure and a
typical equilibrium state (be it
typical with respect to the
phase space measure or the time
average) behaves essentially as
if it were ergodic. To be
precise, the time and phase
space averages of physical
macrostates essentially coincide
on typical trajectories. I claim
that Boltzmann was well aware of
this fact, as it grounds both
his notion of equilibrium
(relating it to the
thermodynamic notion of
equilibrium) and his estimate of
the fluctuation rates.
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March (Friday) 4:15
PM Room 224 + ONLINE
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Egri
Győző
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Faulhorn
Labs, Budapest
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Heavy
burden on locality
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I will summarize the
history of a new way of
understanding quantum
mechanics and the quantum to
classical transition that
started with Schrödinger and
culminated in the Emergent
Multiverse view. Then we
notice that the whole argument
rests on the notion of
locality and the existence of
space. This puts a heavy
burden on locality. But a
quantum system may be seen in
different ways, any unitary
transformation is allowed.
Then the question is: is it
possible to view any (big
enough) generic quantum system
as approximately local? This
would lift the heavy burden.
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