What Sustains Social Norms and How They Evolve? The Case of Tipping
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- 1 January 2003
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
The paper presents a model of the evolution of social norms. When a norm is costly to follow and people do not derive benefits from following it except for avoiKeywords
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