This volume addresses the issue of religion and economy in the evolution of human cooperation. Both religious practices … and economic behaviour create and sustain intra-group cooperation by providing people with common goals and values. Even … if individuals are selfish maximizers of utility, in the end everybody benefits from being part of a cooperative …

In today's highly complex economic environment, cooperation among individuals is crucial for organizational and … societal success. Most of the situations in which cooperation is required involve costly efforts whose consequences play out … over time. Here, we provide a systematic and comprehensive analysis of cooperation in an intertemporal context. In a first …

cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game among Syrian refugees in two host countries, Germany and Jordan. We use a between …-subjects analysis to test our in-group cooperation hypothesis. We find that Syrians are more likely to cooperate when they are … refugees self-report a feeling of relative welcome in the host country, punishment of cooperation norm violations by ingroup or …

A cooperative is an institution that aims to improve the welfare of its members and society. The relatively large … cooperative empowerment on the welfare of cooperative members in Denpasar City. The research was conducted in the city of Denpasar …, where the sample used was the members of the Multipurpose Cooperative (KSU) in Denpasar City as many as 177 people. Data …

"This dissertation explores the cooperative idea as defined by Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm … on benefitting members. In a cooperative, members are not only customers, but also the owners. Building on a basis of … cooperative principles are frequently regarded as a decisive distinguishing feature, it seems that many people consider the …

We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level …-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century– and that contributed to the emergence of a cooperative attitude in the population … on various proxies for current cooperative labor relations for a (repeated) cross section of Italian firms observed over …