about these welfare gains is not logically licensed. In short, labeling punishment “altruistic” because it has the effect of … punishment can help solve collective action problems. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 …

coordination game. We provide policy implications and lessons learned about the evolution of cooperation more generally. … the positive externality in punishing crime in the SBD game converts the adversarial setting from a social dilemma to a …

have a long-evolved and biologically-inherited basis. The social role of morality and its difference with altruism is … same year Darwin published The Descent of Man, which emphasized sympathy and cooperation as well as self-interest, and … for the social sciences and obliges us to abandon the pre-eminent notion of selfish economic man. Economic policy must …

behavior, and animal and human social institutions. A voluminous literature is rapidly accumulating. There are as yet no …

This paper introduces a model of social preferences featuring a single parameter representing an individual …

punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity … embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment …Some philosophers and social scientists have stressed the importance for good government of an altruistic citizenry …

contribution costs and punishment costs. The range over which altruism inhibits cooperation and reduces material payo¢´s is greater … cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment in?icted on defectors, resulting in lower …

contribution costs and punishment costs. The range over which altruism inhibits cooperation and reduces material payoffs is greater … cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment inflicted on defectors, resulting in …

altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North …