Friday, April 07, 2006
Love the Prudes
Later, we will discuss how being able to punish people who are free-riders (even at a cost to yourself) increases people's willingness to cooperate and increases contributions to public goods. Today's NYTimes describes a new experiment which shows that while people initially don't want to join the punitive community, eventually, they abandon the free riders and join the punishment group. Thus it is good to have some people who are not afraid to call out those who are free riding.
// posted by BW @ 2:39 PM 
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