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Punisher pays

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  • Manfred Milinski

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann-Straße 2, D-24306 Plön, Germany. milinski@evolbio.mpg.de)

  • Bettina Rockenbach

    (University of Erfurt, Nordhäuser Straße 63, D-99089 Erfurt, Germany. bettina.rockenbach@uni-erfurt.de)

Abstract

The tendency of humans to punish perceived free-loaders, even at a cost to themselves, is an evolutionary puzzle: punishers perish, and those who benefit the most are those who have never punished at all.

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  • Manfred Milinski & Bettina Rockenbach, 2008. "Punisher pays," Nature, Nature, vol. 452(7185), pages 297-298, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:452:y:2008:i:7185:d:10.1038_452297a
    DOI: 10.1038/452297a
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    1. Christoph Engel & Heike Hennig‐Schmidt & Bernd Irlenbusch & Sebastian Kube, 2015. "On Probation: An Experimental Analysis," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 12(2), pages 252-288, June.

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