Prisoners Dilemma

Do Men And Women Cooperate Differently?

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 01.20.2012

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Art Markman, Ph.D.

If you are trying to create an environment in which people are going to cooperate, you are probably better off fostering an environment of team unity and trust than you are focusing on the gender balance of the group.

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'Empathic Civilization': When Money No Longer Buys Happiness

Richard Layard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Layard

Competition is lonely. Within organisations it may or may not increase productivity, but it does not increase happiness. To extol it is to make a fundamental misjudgment about human nature.

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Trapped In Prisoner's Dilemma, More Stimulus Is The Way Out

David Segal | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Segal

The stimulus' oft-cited $787 billion figure includes nearly $300 billion in tax cuts, meaning that it represents a split between conservative and interventionist economic philosophy.

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I Am Not Paying Higher Taxes to Help the Uninsured

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prisoners-Dilemma, Game Theory, Middle Class, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Public Option, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

No social program -- Medicare, social security, rent control, public universities -- that aims to help the poor can ever succeed without appealing to, and paying off, a broad middle class.

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