An Evolutionary Model of Cooperation, Fairness and Altruistic Punishment in Public Good Games

We identify and explain the mechanisms that account for the emergence of fairness preferences and altruistic punishment in voluntary contribution mechanisms by combining an evolutionary perspective together with an expected utility model. We aim at filling a gap between the literature on the theory...

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Main Authors: Hetzer, Moritz, Sornette, Didier
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3834069/