Analyzing collective action
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Analyzing collective action
Collective-action problems pervade all societies as well as ecological systems used by humans. Substantial evidence has accrued during the last several decades that human actors are able to solve some (but definitely not all) collective-action problems on their own without external rules and enforcement imposed from the outside. In this article, I review some of the structural variables that ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Agricultural Economics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0169-5150
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00497.x