Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange

This dissertation is the first to propose and validate a general process by which exchange partners arrive at a shared understanding of what actions constitute (vs. defection) in changing and complex environments, thereby making cooperation possible. Achieving cooperation in the face of incentives t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volvovsky, Hagay
Other Authors: Zuckerman, Ezra
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151239