Reciprocity and the tragedies of maintaining and providing the commons

Social cooperation often requires collectively beneficial but individually costly restraint to maintain a public good, or it needs costly generosity to create one. Status quo effects predict that maintaining a public good is easier than providing a new one. Here, we show experimentally and with simu...

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Main Authors: Gaechter, Simon, Kölle, Felix, Quercia, Simone
Format: Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45170/