Via Freedom to Coercion: The Emergence of Costly Punishment

DOI10.1126/science.1141588zbMath1226.91010OpenAlexW2120607076WikidataQ34643452 ScholiaQ34643452MaRDI QIDQ3101695

Martin A. Nowak, Karl Sigmund, Christoph Hauert, Hannelore Brandt, Arne Traulsen

Publication date: 30 November 2011

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2430058

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cooperative games (91A12) Applications of game theory (91A80) Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Evolutionary games (91A22) Experimental studies (91A90)

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