Eshel, Ilan; Samuelson, Larry; Shaked, Avner - ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution …
This paper studies a population of agents, each of whom can be either an Altruist or an Egoist. Altruists confer benefits on others at a cost to themselves. Altruism is thus a strictly dominated strategy and cannot survive if agents are rational best-responders. We assume that agents choose...