Cooperation, competition + Dilemmas

Question 1

commons dilemma

Answer 1

• people graze cattle on common pasture
• If all use moderately it will replenish
• 100 farmers on pasture that can only support 100 cows
• Example of replenishable resource dilemma

Question 2

Prisoner’s Dilema - Luce + Riffa

Answer 2

-2 person game where both torn between competition + cooperation (conflict)
- Detectives question 2 guilty suspects separately
- offered chance to Confess knowing if only one does the confessor is granted immunity + other will be convicted
- If both confess, both given moderate offence and if neither confess they both receive light sentence
- mutual suspicion + lack of trust encourages both to Confess almost always

Question 3

Public goods dilemma

Answer 3

• people temped to use them without contributing to their maintenance
• free rider effect: people self- interestedly exploit a resource without caring for it

Question 4

Resolving social dilemmas

Answer 4

• structural solutions to make the dilemma disappear: limit people accessing resource , limit resource, have some manage it
• group identification makes people act in ways that will benefit the group