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Nature 457, 39-40 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457039a; Published online 31 December 2008
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Game theory: How to treat those of ill repute
Bettina Rockenbach1 & Manfred Milinski2
Abstract
A much-needed theoretical analysis deals with whether the principle known as 'costly punishment' helps to maintain cooperation in human society. It will prompt a fresh wave of experiments and theory.
Human societies are built on cooperation, especially on reciprocation1— I help you and you help me, or I help you and someone else helps me. In the first case, help is directly reciprocated by help.
- Bettina Rockenbach is in the Department of Economics, University of Erfurt, Nordhäuser Stra
e 63, D-99089 Erfurt, Germany.
Email: bettina.rockenbach@uni-erfurt.de - Manfred Milinski is in the Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Strae 2, D-24306 Plön, Germany.
Email: milinski@evolbio.mpg.de
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