The purpose of this study was to determine whether attitudes toward risk and altruism are affected by being in a group or being alone. In contrast to previous economic research on group decision-making, we excluded the effects of group informal discussions, which are thought to be a "black box"...

Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...

Intergroup competition has been proven to increase ingroup cooperation, but it will divide individuals into high-status groups and low-status groups, which may lead to group-level conflict and affect cooperation behavior. In this paper, we conduct a laboratory experiment to find how group status...

Purpose - This paper aims to show that zakat solves the collective action problem by changing the framework of giving. An additional purpose of this paper is an attempt to fill a critical gap in the Islamic economics literature. This gap concerns the nature and role of zakat in effectively...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Liberalism: The Ideological Dimension of political correctness -- Chapter 3: Public Choice Theory as an explanatory framework for pc -- Chapter 4: Pc In Academia: The role of academics and University Administrators -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.

Social and political inequality among individuals is a common driving force behind the breakdown in cooperation. In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally study cooperation among individuals faced with a sequence of collective-action problems in which the benefits to cooperation are...