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Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah Sep 2008

Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life


Panel Iii: Restoring American Leadership: Jobs, Growth, Communities, And Trade, Van Jones, Somer Hollingsworth, Ian Rogoff, Fred Redmond Aug 2008

Panel Iii: Restoring American Leadership: Jobs, Growth, Communities, And Trade, Van Jones, Somer Hollingsworth, Ian Rogoff, Fred Redmond

National Clean Energy Summit

Panel discussion Moderator: Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Nevada State AFL-CIO


National Clean Energy Summit Afternoon Keynote, Robert E. Rubin Aug 2008

National Clean Energy Summit Afternoon Keynote, Robert E. Rubin

National Clean Energy Summit

Afternoon keynote


Panel Ii: The Clean Energy Economy, Hilda Solis, Dina Titus, Dan Reicher, Edward Mazria Aug 2008

Panel Ii: The Clean Energy Economy, Hilda Solis, Dina Titus, Dan Reicher, Edward Mazria

National Clean Energy Summit

Panel discussion Moderator: Steve Colwell, Executive Director, Sea Change Foundation


Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah Jul 2008

Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life


Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah Apr 2008

Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life


Institutions Matter: Why The Herder Problem Is Not A Prisoner's Dilemma, Daniel H. C., Peter Z. Grossman Jan 2008

Institutions Matter: Why The Herder Problem Is Not A Prisoner's Dilemma, Daniel H. C., Peter Z. Grossman

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

In the game theory literature, Garrett Hardin’s famous allegory of the “tragedy of the commons” has been modeled as a variant of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, labeled the Herder Problem (or, sometimes, the Commons Dilemma). This brief paper argues that important differences in the institutional structures of the standard Prisoner’s Dilemma and Herder Problem render the two games different in kind. Specifically, institutional impediments to communication and cooperation that ensure a dominant strategy of defection in the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma are absent in the Herder Problem. Their absence does not ensure that players will achieve a welfare-enhancing, cooperative solution to the …


Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah Jan 2008

Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life