http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/03/22/evolution-of-cooperation/ coping with ecological suprise in a human dominated world Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:43:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://rs.resalliance.org/2005/03/22/evolution-of-cooperation/#comment-20 Marco Janssen Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:24:19 +0000 http://blog.resalliance.org/?p=34#comment-20 It is a pitty that journalists from popular magazines are ignorant about the literature (I met the author of this New Scientist paper a few years ago and he was largely unaware of the literature not published in Nature, Science and PNAS). The findings described in the paper about are not really novel. The importance of enforecement has been shown in laboratory experiments in the late 1980s/ early 1990s. See for example Ostrom, Gardner and Walker (1994) Rules, Games and Common Pool Resources, Michigan University Press. It is a pitty that journalists from popular magazines are ignorant about the literature (I met the author of this New Scientist paper a few years ago and he was largely unaware of the literature not published in Nature, Science and PNAS). The findings described in the paper about are not really novel. The importance of enforecement has been shown in laboratory experiments in the late 1980s/ early 1990s. See for example Ostrom, Gardner and Walker (1994) Rules, Games and Common Pool Resources, Michigan University Press.

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