This paper studies the role of memory and communication in games between ongoing organizations. In each organization … the past can be communicated by one generation to the next through ``cheap talk" communication. With costly communication …

We ask whether communication can directly substitute for memory in dynastic repeated games in which short lived … by means of communication. When communication is costless and messages are sent simultaneously, communication mechanisms … or protocols exist that sustain the same set of equilibrium payoffs as in the standard repeated game. When communication …

's messages. This confirms ``truth bias'' reported in communication theory in a one-shot, anonymous environment without nonverbal … under certain conditions. We claim that the theory for the evolution of language should address why truthful communication …