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The Transmission of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative
Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms of cooperation takes place via interpersonal relations, while individual agents face the temptation of higher profits by overexploiting the resource. Agents remain conditionally cooperative, unless other individuals are misbehaving already. We can observe a bubble of conditional cooperators slowly building up followed by a sudden burst, which means that a transition from a cooperative social norm to non-cooperation occurs. Interestingly, in some parameter regions alternative stable states and limit cycles arise. The latter implies that the same community goes through such a transition repeatedly over long time spans – history thus repeats itself in the form of the creation and erosion of social capital.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 80.2013
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Renewable Resources and Conservation: General
- Subject
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Common Pool Resource
Conditional Cooperators
Social-Ecological Complexity
Social Capital
Social Norms
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Richter, Andries
Grasman, Johan
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
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Milano
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Richter, Andries
- Grasman, Johan
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Time of origin
- 2013