Review: Game theory of public goods in one-shot social dilemmas without assortment.

We review the theory of public goods in biology. In the N-person prisoner's dilemma, where the public good is a linear function of the individual contributions, cooperation requires some form of assortment, for example due to kin discrimination, population viscosity or repeated interactions. In...

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Main Authors: Archetti, M, Scheuring, I
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012