@techreport{Chandrasekhar2005Vicarious,
abstract = {Recently, it has been suggested that the process of economic development should ideally be viewed as a socioeconomic transformation. Such a view requires a comprehensive understanding of how agents learn and change their behaviour. However, these aspects have only been inadequately addressed in development theory. This paper argues that social-cognitive vicarious learning theories can become a useful methodological tool by incorporating a triadic interaction between personal factors (beliefs, values), behaviour and environment. Our analysis is based on a survey of the Indian trans-Himalayan regions. The development trajectory of these regions suggests that a proper understanding of the vicarious learning mechanism provides crucial insight into the speed of socioeconomic transformations. It also helps to identify appropriate change agents within a society and, in turn, underscores the need for a comprehensive, yet flexible, development policy framework.},
address = {Jena},
author = {K. Chandrasekhar and Saradindu Bhaduri},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; development; socio-economic transformation; vicarious learning; evolution; traditional societies},
language = {eng},
number = {0518},
publisher = {Max-Planck-Inst. f\"{u}r \"{O}konomik},
title = {Vicarious learning and socio-economic transformation in Indian Trans-Himalaya},
type = {Papers on economics and evolution},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31836},
year = {2005}
}
