The evolution of resilience

David Levine

Journal of Economic Theory, 2025, vol. 230, issue C

Abstract: I analyze a social evolutionary model in which there is a non-excludable public good that reduces the chances of catastrophe. I show that while resilient types that produce the public good cannot survive head-to-head competition with other more selfish types in a fixed population, they do if catastrophes reduce population.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2025.106078

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