The long-run benefits of punishment.
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چکیده
Experiments have shown that punishment enhances socially beneficial cooperation but that the costs of punishment outweigh the gains from cooperation. This challenges evolutionary models of altruistic cooperation and punishment, which predict that punishment will be beneficial. We compared 10- and 50-period cooperation experiments. With the longer time horizon, punishment is unambiguously beneficial.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 322 5907 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008