Anomalies
Cooperation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4030102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robyn M Dawes (Carnegie Mellon University), Richard H Thaler (0000-0001-7550-2855, Cornell University) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 187-197 |
| Publication date | 1988-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/jep.2.3.187 |
| OpenAlex | W4248869758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 126 |
| References cited | 11 |
Much economic analysis -- and virtually all game theory -- starts with the assumption that people are both rational and selfish. The predictions derived from this assumption of rational selfishness are, however, violated in many familiar contexts. In this column and the next one, the evidence from laboratory experiments is examined to see what has been learned about when and why humans cooperate. This column considers the particularly important case of cooperation vs. free riding in the context of public good provision
Economics · Free riding · Game theory · Incentive · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Positive economics · Public good · Selfishness · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Economic theories and models · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law
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Economics and Social Interaction
Some Concluding Reflections on the Privatization of Common Property Resources
Justice, Utility, and Care
The Property Rights School Solution
The Unregulated Common Property
Civil Society, Rights, and the Presumption of Care
Conditions for Successful Collective Action
Natural Resources and Economic Growth
Recent Changes Affecting Collective Action at Village Level
The Ethics of Care as Moral Theory
The Possibility of Co‐Operation
The Regulated Common Property
Caring Relations and Principles of Justice
Care and Justice in the Global Context
Care as Practice and Value
Co‐Ordination and Leadership in the Unregulated Common Property
The Tragedy of the Commons
Power, Care, and the Reach of Law
Care and the Extension of Markets
Were People Traditionally Conservationists?
Moral Norms and Co‐Operation
The Caring Person
Liberalism and the Ethics of Care
General Conclusion
Co‐Management as a New Approach to Regulation of Common Property Resources
Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans
The Methodology of Experimental Economics
Social norms and human cooperation
Models of Interpersonal Trust Development
Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters
Decentralized targeting of an antipoverty program
Emotional Dimensions of Social Movements
Collective action as a social exchange
The Scope of Cooperation
Caring for the Commons
Halting Degradation of Natural Resources
Hic sunt leones
The Ethics of Care
Care and the Extension of Markets
Sociality as a defensive response to the threat of loss
Simple Heuristics in a Social World
The puzzle of cooperation in a game of chicken
Risk and Temptation
Bargaining Game with Altruistic and Spiteful Preferences
Governing cooperatives in the context of individual motives
From values to motives
Communication and Collective Actions
Emotional pathways to climate change responses
Strategic Cooperation
The Oslo-Potsdam Solution to Measuring Regime Effectiveness
Does it pay to cooperate? The case of cooperatives in the Mexican manufacturing sector
The Value of Questions in Organizing
The Constitution of the Not-For-Profit Organisation
Do market and trust contexts spillover into public goods contributions? Evidence from experimental games in Papua New Guinea
A model of sequential effects in common pool resource dilemmas
Trust and trustworthiness in a sequential bargaining game
Effects of information and motivational orientation on harvest of a declining renewable resource
Care and the Extension of Markets
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Failures of the “Invisible Hand”
Sociability and the Market
The Effects of Neighborhood Democracy on Cooperation
The emergence and evolution of collective action
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Better-than-chance prediction of cooperative behaviour from first and second impressions
Explaining altruistic behavior in humans
New Directions for IPE
Social Traps and the Problem of Trust
Trust, Happiness, and Pro-social Behavior
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Activation of social norms in social dilemmas
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Adding exchange to charity
Fairness in markets
What money can’t buy
Two sides of one coin
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Modeling Other-Regarding Preferences and an Experimental Test
Introducing “Cooperative Push”
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An Essay on the Assumption of Rational Behavior in Economics
Public goods provision in an experimental environment
Economists free ride, does anyone else?
Rational cooperation in the finitely repeated prisoners' dilemma
The ?crowding-out? effect of governmental transfers on private charitable contributions
The free rider problem
Divergent evidence on free riding
On the private provision of public goods
Organizing Groups for Collective Action
The Minimal Contributing Set as a Solution to Public Goods Problems
| Unique citing works | 126 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,41 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 122 |