Exploitation, Mutual Advantage and The Myth of the Samaritan's Dilemma

Alain Marciano

ICER Working Papers from ICER - International Centre for Economic Research

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to illustrate a potential problem in Samaritan's dilemmas: that Samaritans have a vested interest in encouraging parasitism. In effect, they gain from their altruism. To demonstrate this result, we show that the Nash equilibrium in a Samaritan's dilemma is a Pareto superior outcome.

Keywords: Altruism; Samaritan's dilemma; Exploitation; Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H84 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2014-12
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