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physics.soc-ph2021★ 9 cited
The cost of noise: stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments
Mohammad Salahshour, Vincent Oberhauser, Matteo Smerlak
Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer pun…
physics.soc-ph2014★ 13 cited
Thermodynamics of inequalities: from precariousness to economic stratification
Matteo Smerlak
Growing economic inequalities are observed in several countries throughout the world. Following Pareto, the power-law structure of these inequalities has been the subject of much t…