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 …

cost-benefit ratio (CBR). There are indeed only two stable sets of equilibria enabling cooperation, one for low CBRs …-order discriminators which highlights the necessity for higher-order information to sustain cooperation through indirect reciprocity. In a …

can lead to almost universal cooperation in circumstances in which purely self-interested behavior would cause a complete … breakdown of cooperation. In addition, we show that people are willing to punish those who behaved unfairly towards a third … device for the enforcement of social norms like, e.g., food-sharing norms or collective action norms. Strong Reciprocity …