"An Eye for an Eye Leaves Everyone Blind": Cooperation and Accounting Systems
- 1 December 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Sociological Review
- Vol. 58 (6) , 768-786
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2095950
Abstract
Using computer simulations that permit degrees of cooperation and introduce ''noise'' into the environment, I explore the benefits of strategies in which actors use different accounting systems to track ongoing exchanges. By relaxing some stringent assumptions of past work, I chart the conditions under which cooperation may emerge when actors can show degrees of cooperation and when actors' moves are misperceived. Results provide evidence that strategies employing a relaxed accounting system have many advantages.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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