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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001

"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...

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Behavioral Foundations of Reciprocity: Experimental Economics and Evolutionary Psychology

Hoffman, Elizabeth; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - 1995

collect more money from the experimenter than noncooperative game theory predicts. As we interpret it, subject behavior in …

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Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong; Ostrom, Elinor; Walker, James M. - 2002

Subsequently published as:"Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity into Game Theoretic Models of Collective Action." Public Choice, 117, 2003, 295-315."Understanding cooperation in the context of social dilemma games is fundamental to understanding how alternative institutional arrangements may...

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The Use of Peer Sanctioning Mechanisms in an Asymmetric Commons Dilemma: An Experimental Study

Eisentraut, Renate - 2000

"In symmetric commons dilemmas, peer sanctioning, i.e. the possibility to gather information about the resource use of others and to sanction overuse, can be an effective structural solution in terms of resource conservation. However, most real world commons are characterized by structural...

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The Dynamics of Continuing Conflict

Reuveny, Rafael; Maxwell, John W. - 2000

"There is a relatively small but growing literature in economics that examines conflictive activities using a framework in which agents allocate their resource endowments between wealth production and appropriation. To date, studies in this literature have employed a similar one period game...

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It Works in Practice. Does It Work in Theory?

Moir, Robert - 1998

theory. Further research is necessary to understand how individuals operate in this environment." …

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AN APPLICATION OF GAME THEORY: FUNDING INTERDEPENDENT MC and A UPGRADE DECISIONS

B. G. SCOTT - 2008

required to take into account the decisions of others, the process can be modeled as a game. Game theory has been previously be … the strategy of others. In this paper, the application of game theory in the context of MC&A upgrades is discussed …. By demonstrating the application of game theory to a nontraditional environment that may require MC&A upgrades, this work …

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1991 Annual report on scientific programs: A broad research program on the sciences of complexity

2008

1991 was continued rapid growth for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as it broadened its interdisciplinary research into the organization, evolution and operation of complex systems and sought deeply the principles underlying their dynamic behavior. Research on complex systems--the focus of work at...

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Alternative comparison, analysis, and evaluation of solid waste and materials system alternatives

Brothers, A.J. - 2009

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of solid waste technical options on values and objectives that are important to the public. It is written in support of the Solid Waste and Materials Systems Alternatives Study (WHC, 1995). Described are the values that were identified,...

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Industrial Partnership Prosperity Game{trademark}

Boyak, K.; Berman, M.; Beck, D. - 2009

Prosperity Games TM are an outgrowth and adaptation move/countermove and seminar War Games. Prosperity Games TM are simulations that explore complex issues in a variety of areas including economics, politics, sociology, environment, education, and research. These issues can be examined from a...

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