Cooperation is considered to be one of the driving forces to advance human civilization.
How to increase the level of cooperation within the community has always been a hot …

Free-riding produces inequality in the prisoners' dilemma: cooperators suffer costs that
defectors avoid, thus putting them at a material disadvantage to their anti-social peers. This …

This study investigates a possible nexus between inter-group competition and intra-group
cooperation, which may be called" tribalism." Building upon previous studies demonstrating …

Social network analysis offers a powerful method for comprehending intricate systems
created through agent-based computational models. Scholars contend that intricate agent …

Social learning plays a key role in the evolution of cooperation in humans and other
animals. It has also been shown both theoretically and experimentally that environmental …

The well‐known “Bertrand paradox” describes a price competition game in which two
competing firms reach an outcome where both charge a price equal to the marginal cost …

Unplanned institutions appear to play an important role in economic activity but we lack a
good understanding of how they emerge. Also, can legal rules enable the endogenous …

Digital technology makes all information computer-compatible. That means that even the
most complex information can be represented by numbers and stored and processed …

Cooperation and social learning are fundamental mechanisms that maintain social
organisation among animals and humans. Social institutions can be conceptualised …

In this work, we study an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game (PDG) on Barabási–Albert
scale-free networks with limited player interactions, and explore the effect of interaction style …