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Chapter 11 Natural Kantian or ZOO ECONOMICUS ? Evolutionary theories of selfishness and altruism among men and beasts
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 771-817). 2006
This paper addresses the question of whether our evolutionary history suggests that humans are likely to be individually selected selfish maximizers or group selected altruists. It surveys models from the literature of evolutionary biology in which groups are formed and dissolved and where the...
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Altruists Egoists and Hooligans in a Local Interaction Model
Eshel, Ilan; Samuelson, Larry; Shaked, Avner - ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution …
benefits on others at a cost to themselves. Altruism is thus a strictly dominated strategy and cannot survive if agents are … can survive in such a world if they are grouped together, so that the benefits of Altruism are enjoyed primarily by other …
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Two-person Bargaining with Lexicographic Altruistic Preferences
Glycopantis, Dionysius - 2019
In bargaining theory a usual assumption is either that of von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions or that of continuous preferences. Recently we considered in Glycopantis a bargaining model which breaks away from this traditional treatment by employing lexicographic preferences of a...
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Altruists, Egoists and Hooligans in a Local Interaction Model.
Eshel, I.; Samuelson, L.; Shaked, A. - Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems - 1996
We study a population of agents , each of whome can be an Altruist or an Egoist. Altruism is a strictly dominated …
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Psychological Games in the Theory of Choice. II. Shame, Regret, Egoism and Altruism
Zak, F. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 22 (2014) 2, pp. 12-40
principles (religious beliefs, altruism, patriotism), emotions (envy, wrath, shame, regret, or guilt) or simply by an attempt to …
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A model for coopetitive games
Carfì, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In the present introductory work we propose an original analytical model of coopetitive game. We suggest possible general and feasible solutions; in particular, from a coopetitive perspective, we suggest compromise solutions - for our coopetitive game, by using Kalai-Smorodinsky method.
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COOPERATION IN VISCOUS POPULATIONS - EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
Mengel, Friederike; Grimm, Veronika - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2007
one's type or group) on cooperation in a standard prisoner's dilemma environment. Subjects can repeatedly choose between … viscosity leads to a sharp increase in overall cooperation rates and in addition positively affects the subjects' intrinsic …
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Cooperation in a Multi-Dimensional Local Interaction Model
Tieman, Alexander F.; Houba, Harold; Laan, Gerard van der - EconWPA - 1998
We consider a local interaction model with a population on an h dimensional torus, in which in each round of play a random player gets a learning draw. This player plays a k+1 action stage game with players in his neighborhood, compares his own average payoff with the average payoff of the...
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
that group identity is a key factor in the explanation of intergroup cooperation and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419371
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The Problem of Cooperation and Reputation Based Choice
Bergh, Andreas; Engseld, Peter - 2006
The standard method when analyzing the problem of cooperation using evolutionary game theory is to assume that people … illustrate how reputation based choice of opponents can explain both the emergence and deterioration of cooperation. We show that … empirical and experimental evidence of cooperation is consistent with our hypothesis that people behave so as to minimize the …
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