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Science 7 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5770, pp. 60 - 61
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126398
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SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions

Joseph Henrich

Given the choice, people prefer institutional arrangements in which those who overconsume common-property resources are punished compared to those in which they go free.

The author is in the Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. E-mail: jhenric{at}emory.edu

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