N-person dilemmas, stag hunt and chicken games.
Sometimes as individuals we can act as one. In the book As One, Individual Actions Collective Power, the authors write that they have discovered “that there are many modes of “As One behavior” and that all are effective in certain contexts. As One defines eight archetypes of leaders and followers. Taking more than 60 cases…
This short video lays the ground work for the WM Toolkit, a series of tools designed to link Schelling’s ideas about collective action with variants of a negotiation exercise, well known to negotiation trainers, the Win as Much as You Can Game. There is a novel and important distinction that these models reveal. Although, B…
Some 50 years after his article “Hockey Helmets, Concealed Weapons, and Daylight Saving: A Study of Binary Choices with Externalities“, there are remains basic confusions about the varieties of social dilemmas or predicaments. There are 3 sorts of confusions: not distinguishing between a “Schelling” diagram and a “Dawes” diagram, not distinguishing between the basic shapes…
