Carpenter, Jeffrey; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71 (2009) 2, pp. 221-232
Punishment of shirkers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems and sustaining coordination in work teams. Explanations of the motivation to punish generally rely either on small group size or on a Folk theorem that requires coordinated punishment and, hence, highly accurate...