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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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Reference dependence, cooperation, and coordination in games [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2015 The problems of how self-interested players can cooperate despite incentives to defect, and how players can coordinate despite the presence of multiple equilibria, are among the oldest and most fundamental in game theory.
Mark Schneider, Jonathan W. Leland
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Conformity enhances network reciprocity in evolutionary social dilemmas [PDF]
, 2014 The pursuit of highest payoffs in evolutionary social dilemmas is risky and sometimes inferior to conformity. Choosing the most common strategy within the interaction range is safer because it ensures that the payoff of an individual will not be much ...
Perc, Matjaz, Szolnoki, Attila
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Sharing the Same Playground? An Analysis of the Private Sector's Role in Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes the emergence of tech diplomacy as the motivation for an investigation into shifting relationships between traditional diplomatic actors and non‐state actors. The observation that ‘new diplomatic actors’ and new diplomatic venues have led to a ‘new kind of diplomacy’ dates back to at least the 1990s.
Katharina E. Höne
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An Open Framework for the Reproducible Study of the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
Journal of Open Research Software, 2016 The Axelrod library is an open source Python package that allows for reproducible game theoretic research into the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. This area of research began in the 1980s but suffers from a lack of documentation and test code.
Vincent Knight +21 more
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Evolutionary prisoner's dilemma games coevolving on adaptive networks [PDF]
J. Complex Networks, 2017 We study a model for switching strategies in the Prisoner's Dilemma game on adaptive networks of player pairings that coevolve as players attempt to maximize their return.
Hsuan-Wei Lee, Nishant Malik, P. Mucha
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Classical bioethics examines moral issues in terrestrial medicine and the life sciences. According to Konrad Szocik, space bioethics merely relocates those questions to harsher environments. We argue that this view is incomplete: space bioethics is a genuinely original domain.
Maurizio Balistreri
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Respect is a foundational moral and social value, yet its conceptualisation by and about children and young people remains underexplored. This systematic qualitative literature review examines how respect and disrespect are theorised, defined or conceptualised in relation to children and young people, and the extent to which their perspectives
Alison MacKenzie +9 more
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Forgiver triumphs in alternating Prisoner's Dilemma. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Cooperative behavior, where one individual incurs a cost to help another, is a wide spread phenomenon. Here we study direct reciprocity in the context of the alternating Prisoner's Dilemma.
Benjamin M Zagorsky +3 more
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