The Insoluble Problem of the Social Contract
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The traditional problem of the social contract defies solution. Agents with the motivations traditionally assumed would not in the circumstances traditionally assumed voluntarily arrive at a contract or voluntarily keep it up, as we can now understand, more clearly than our illustrious predecessors, by treating the problem in terms not available to them: the terms of Prisoner's Dilemma and of the theory of public goods.
1981 ◽
Vol 29
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pp. 339-351
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2007 ◽
pp. 222-231
1994 ◽
Vol 38
(1)
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pp. 56-86
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1998 ◽
pp. 143-147
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2008 ◽
Vol 26
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pp. 47-61
2013 ◽
Vol 9
(6)
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pp. 802-809
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