Technological diffusion and preference learning in the world of Homo sustinens: : The challenges for politics

• Autores: Christian Cordes, Georg Schwesinger
• Localización: Ecological Economics, ISSN-e 1873-6106, Nº. 97, 2014, págs. 191-200
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article relates agents' learning of a preference for a technology, competition of technologies, and their relative diffusion among potential adopters. Competitive interactions between two technologies are captured by an extended Lotka�Volterra model. To also incorporate preference learning on the part of potential adopters of these technologies, we combine it with a model of cultural learning based on role model, conformist, and hedonistic learning. Our theoretical analysis is illustrated by a concrete example: the competition between electric mobility and conventional forms of individual mobility. The model enables an evaluation of specific policy instruments as to the promotion of sustainable technology