Before mid-term we have gone through the article where we learned about 'Prisoner's dilemma' where the players make their decisions independently. At that moment it seemed to be very useful tool to get the real information.
But after going through the article " Common Property", i myself came in dilemma. Here in this article, Runge has attacked the adequacy of the prisoner's dilemma as a model for studying group use, saying that it does not adequately reflect the interdependencies of joint use. According to him, real-world commons users don't exhibit such independent, separable decisions. Rather, commons users condition their decisions on expectations of other behavior.
Did you also come in dilemma after reading this ?
If yes Why, no why?
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i have not gone through the reading but can tell from your entry that prisoner's dilemma also plays with the expectation of the prisoners about the opposition's behaviour. They make one prisoner realised that the other one has already told or has accepted to tell and would be treated with lesser harshness. so if he/she also cooperates, he/she could also reduce his/her punishment. even if the decision of not deciding is pre determined, one never knows in the situation of a prison, one can succumb to the torture any time. so, this creates dilemma and is true for commons property as well.
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