Inequality and visibility of wealth in experimental social networks

Akihiro Nishi, Hirokazu Shirado, David G. Rand and Nicholas A. Christakis ()
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Akihiro Nishi: Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University
Hirokazu Shirado: Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University
David G. Rand: Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University
Nicholas A. Christakis: Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University

Nature, 2015, vol. 526, issue 7573, 426-429

Abstract: Wealth inequality and wealth visibility can potentially affect overall levels of cooperation and economic success, and an online experiment was used to test how these factors interact; wealth inequality by itself did not substantially damage overall cooperation or overall wealth, but making wealth levels visible had a detrimental effect on social welfare.

Date: 2015
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