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Cooperation as a volunteer's dilemma and the strategy of conflict in public goods games.
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Conflict and cooperation for the exploitation of public goods are usually modelled as an N-person prisoner's dilemma. Many social dilemmas, however, would be described more properly as a volunteer's dilemma, in which a certain number of individuals are necessary to produce a public good. If volunteering is costly, but so is failure to produce the public good, cheaters can invade and form a stable mixed equilibrium with cooperators. The dilemma is that the benefit for the group decreases with ...
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- 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01835.x
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- Journal:
- Journal of evolutionary biology
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 2192-2200
- Publication date:
- 2009-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1420-9101
- ISSN:
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1010-061X
- Source identifiers:
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209512
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- English
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pubs:209512
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uuid:d7fd119a-4813-4962-940b-8929acb68ba2
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- pubs:209512
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