neutral language. Here we show that cooperation in such a neutrally framed Prisoner’s Dilemma is equivalent to a PD framed as … contributing to a cooperative endeavour. Conversely, there is substantially less cooperation in a PD framed as a competition. We …

There are many situations where the best outcome is reached through co-operation and co-ordination of agents’ actions … this failure may be lack of information about the gains from co-operation, or lack of capacity to implement the co …-operative strategy. The present work focuses on two obstacles to co-operation that are linked with the incentives of the economic agents …