Competition, Cooperation and Collective Choice

Competition, cooperation, and collective choice

The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral outcome depends strongly on...

Cooperation Competition Running head: A THEORY OF COOPERATION - COMPETITION A Theory of Cooperation - Competition and Beyond

This chapter is concerned with my interrelated theoretical work in the areas of cooperation competition, conflict resolution, social justice, and social relations. The theory of cooperation competition is a component of the other theories. Thus, the theory of conflict resolution is based on this theory and my Crude Law of Social Relations. My work in social justice is also based on this theory,...

Competition and Cooperation

Cooperation and competition.

Some time ago, in the garden of a friend’s house, my 5-year-old son and his chum were struggling over possession of a water hose. (They were in conflict.) Each wanted to use it first to water the garden. (They had a competitive orientation.) Each was trying to tug it away from the other and both were crying. Each was very frustrated, and neither was able to use the hose to sprinkle the flowers ...

Competition, Cooperation, and Authorization

Multi-agent systems considered in the paper consist of a finite number of agents, positions of which can be changed by system actions, and of an evaluation function which assigns to each agent a value of its current position (as e.g. the distance from the intended target). The set of all possible values is ordered; the intention of each agent is to reach a position with the minimum value. Any s...