A caring majority secures the future
Louis Putterman
Nature, 2014, vol. 511, issue 7508, 165-166
Abstract:
An experiment studying people's willingness to sacrifice personal gains so that resources are passed to future generations shows that this occurs only when extractions by free-riders are curbed by majority rule. See Letter p.220
Date: 2014
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