The objective of this paper is to illustrate a potential problem in Samaritan's dilemmas: that Samaritans have a vested interest in encouraging parasitism. In effect, they gain from their altruism. To demonstrate this result, we show that the Nash equilibrium in a Samaritan's dilemma is a Pareto...

In a laboratory experiment, the voluntary provision of public goods is investigated when there is probabilistic uncertainty about the monetary return from production of the public good. After group members make their provision decisions, the return is drawn from an exogenously determined...

In a laboratory experiment, the voluntary provision of public goods is investigated when there is probabilistic uncertainty about the monetary return from production of the public good. After group members make their provision decisions, the return is drawn from an exogenously determined...

In modern conditions standard models of market coordination and price control at which each enterprise is a separate and independent production unit, are economically inexpedient. The author considers the objective necessity of the establishment of the parity relations between business and the...

Development assistance is a tool, which is used (among other tools) by the developed world to support economic development in less developed countries. Nowadays, new players have been appearing among the donors – the BRIC countries. This paper is dedicated to principles of the Chinese...

In this article, I endeavor to recount the odd history of how we have come to perceive plants like we do, and illustrate how plants themselves perceive and sense the world and, most importantly, what they can tell us about Nature. Through examples of the ingenious ways plants have evolved to...

If we wish to understand how our species can adapt to the coming tide of environmental change, then understanding how we have adapted throughout the course of evolution is vital. Evolutionary biologists have been exploring these questions in the last forty years, establishing a solid record of...