Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality

✍ Scribed by HERBERT GINTIS

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 186 KB
• Volume: 206
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5193
• DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2111

✦ Synopsis

For a review of the evidence concerning cooperation in non-humans and humans, see Dugatkin (1997) and Dugatkin (1998), respectively. Following Axelrod & Hamilton (1981), most models deal with repeated two-person interactions, although Boyd & Richerson (1988, 1992) and a few others deal with larger groups. Sethi & Somanathan (1996) is close to this paper in modeling endogenous punishment in a public goods game, but their model predicts the absence of punishers in equilibrium, a result at variance with observed behavior in human society.