Economics and Astrobiology

Economics has developed as a science that studies human behavior at the level of interactions between people, institutions, and any combination of these. While economics is a newer science than natural sciences (such as physics and biology) in a formalized way, it has developed significantly in the past century and it has spurred many branches of interdisciplinarity with other sciences. Unlike other sciences though, economics has also been subject to lots of internal frictions and disagreement among its scholars and scientists. But all this interesting history of science of economics also makes it a rich field and repository for exploring theories and methods that can be applied in other sciences as well.

A very compelling article on the misunderstandings between economists and other scientists regarding the role of economics in the creating sustainable civilizations and technological advancements.



A recent presentation at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science on Evolutionary Game Theory and the Limits of Life

BMSIS_UniversalConstraintsLife.pptx

CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMICS IN BIOLOGY AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

1. Evolution of Social Behavior in Biology

2 . Migration Patterns

3. Principles of human behavior that are also fundamental in biology:

FREE RIDING AND SELFISHNESS: Fish schools behavior and the economic free-rider problem.

MARKETS / EXCHANGE: Microbial markets

ENERGETIC COSTS AND BENEFITS: Metabolic efficiency

META-STUDIES: THE ECONOMICS OF THE ASTROBIOLOGY FIELD TODAY

"The impossible is cummulative." (SELF-ANNIHILATING SENTENCES - Saul Gorn's Compendium Of Rarely Used Cliches, 1985)