3 papers
cs.SI2025
Gender Differences in International Research Collaboration in European Union
Elsa Fontainha, Tanya Araújo
This paper investigates International Research Collaboration (IRC) among European Union (EU) countries from 2011 to 2022, with emphasis on gender-based authorship patterns. Drawing…
physics.soc-ph2025
Agent-based modeling and the sociology of money: some suggestions for refining monetary theory using social simulation
Eduardo Coltre Ferraciolli, Tanya V. Araújo
The institution of money can be seen as a foundational social mechanism, enabling communities to quantify collectively regulate economic processes. Money can be said, indeed, to co…
physics.soc-ph2025
The Devil's Dung? Money as a mechanism of generalized reciprocity in human societies
Eduardo C. Ferraciolli, Francesco Renzini, Tanya V. Araujo +1
St. Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) famously called money the devil's dung, and indeed money is often associated with greed, inequality, and corruption. Drawing on Nowak's five ru…