Since economic activities are important determinants of people's success, economic circumstances will influence the evolutionary selection process, while human diversity will affect economic performance. Combining the biological and economic perspective can improve our insight in both disciplines: What role does human diversity play in explaining economic performance and how does the human evolution adjust to economic circumstances? Such a genetic and cultural co-evolution can be related to a number of issues concerning human cooperation, sexual selection and parental investments in children.

On 22 and 23 November 2004 we will organise a workshop in Maastricht to bring together leading biologists and economists who are interested in the interplay between biology and economics. The workshop is sponsored by the Dutch Science Foundation as a part of their Evolution and Behaviour research program.

Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
University of Maastricht

Ido Pen
Simon Verhulst
Franz Weissing
University of Groningen

This workshop has been supported by a grant from:

NWO: Netherlands organisation for scientific research
Priority research programme – “Evolution and Behaviour”