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The Prisoner's Dilemma
Two rational choices add up to a worse outcome for both.
Two rational choices add up to a worse outcome for both. That is the claim, and it is the kind that looks obvious until we try to say where it stops. Where does it hold, where does it fail, and what changes once we can see it at work? That is a conversation, not a paragraph.
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- Collective Action
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- The Security Dilemma
- Tit for Tat
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Trust and Social Capital
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