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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - In: Economics and human biology 9 (2011) 4, pp. 443-451

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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation? Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is … of the sustainability of cooperation of the appearance of the mutants in a population that is not growing, and in one … that is growing. It is shown that the ex-ante probability of sustaining the cooperation strategy is higher for a community …

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Cooperation and wealth

Stark, Oded - 2002

We calculate the equilibrium fraction of cooperators in a population in which payoffs accrue from playing a single-shot prisoner's dilemma game. Individuals who are hardwired as cooperators or defectors are randomly matched into pairs, and cooperators are able to perfectly find out the type of a...

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