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The Collective Trust Game: An Online Group Adaptation of the Trust Game Based on the HoneyComb Paradigm

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Trust and cooperation among economic agents.

Partha Dasgupta¹

¹Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. partha.dasgupta@econ.cam.ac.uk

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences

|October 7, 2009

Summary

Economic agents select strategies based on beliefs about others' choices and consequences. Societies can shift from cooperation to non-cooperation due to mistrust, impacting global public goods cooperation.

Area of Science:

Evolutionary Biology
Game Theory
Behavioral Economics

Background:

Strategies are conditional actions subject to selection pressure in evolutionary biology.
Economic agents choose strategies based on others' actions and future consequences.
Beliefs about others' behavior are fundamental to strategy selection.

Purpose of the Study:

To construct a catalogue of social environments for strategy selection.
To analyze conditions for cooperation and non-cooperation among economic agents.
To explain the elusiveness of international cooperation on global public goods.

Main Methods:

Modeling social environments where agents make promises and rationally believe them.
Analyzing the emergence of multiple equilibria in social interactions.

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Examining the role of mistrust and the Prisoners' Dilemma in cooperation.

Main Results:

Cooperation is possible when agents rationally believe promises will be kept.
Societies can harbor multiple equilibria, leading to potential shifts from cooperation to non-cooperation.
Cooperative arrangements may involve inequality and exploitation, not just mutual benefit.

Conclusions:

Mistrust can undermine cooperation even in environments designed for it.
The focus on the Prisoners' Dilemma overlooks other dynamics of cooperation and exploitation.
Understanding these dynamics is crucial for addressing challenges in global public goods cooperation.