Microeconomic uncertainties facilitate cooperative alliances and social welfare
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We show that microeconomic chaotic variations of payoffs in the prisoner's dilemma game maintain cooperation over a broad range of defection temptation values where otherwise economic stalemate reigns. Thus, unpredictability at micro scales impedes mutual defection that inflicts social poverty. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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