No margin, no mission? Evaluating the role of incentives in the distribution of public goods in Zambia

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nava Ashraf ◽  
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Oriana Bandiera ◽  
Kelsey Jack ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods

Glad Tidings and Grave Warnings: The Role of Advice on Cooperation in Public Goods Dilemmas

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew W. McCarter ◽  
Bryan L. Bonner
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods

scholarly journals Staphylococcus aureuscoagulases are exploitable yet stable public goods in clinically relevant conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (50) ◽  
pp. E11771-E11779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urvish Trivedi ◽  
Jonas S. Madsen ◽  
Jake Everett ◽  
Cody Fell ◽  
Jakob Russel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Coagulation Cascade ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innate Defense ◽  
The Commons

Coagulation is an innate defense mechanism intended to limit blood loss and trap invading pathogens during infection. However,Staphylococcus aureushas the ability to hijack the coagulation cascade and generate clots via secretion of coagulases. Although manyS. aureushave this characteristic, some do not. The population dynamics regarding this defining trait have yet to be explored. We report here that coagulases are public goods that confer protection against antimicrobials and immune factors within a local population or community, thus promoting growth and virulence. By utilizing variants of a methicillin-resistantS. aureuswe infer that the secretion of coagulases is a cooperative trait, which is subject to exploitation by invading mutants that do not produce the public goods themselves. However, overexploitation, “tragedy of the commons,” does not occur at clinically relevant conditions. Our micrographs indicate this is due to spatial segregation and population viscosity. These findings emphasize the critical role of coagulases in a social evolution context and provide a possible explanation as to why the secretion of these public goods is maintained in mixedS. aureuscommunities.

When Lighthouses became Public Goods: The Role of Technological Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-172
Author(s):  
Theresa Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Technological Change

scholarly journals Equitable Provision of Long-Term Public Goods: The Role of Negotiation Mandates

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franck Lecocq ◽  
Jean-Charles Hourcade
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods

The Role of Culture in Public Goods and Other Experiments

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (04) ◽  
pp. 740-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun-Ki Chai ◽  
Dolgorsuren Dorj ◽  
Kyle Hampton ◽  
Ming Liu
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods

Life Cycle of an Innovation Commons

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-178
Author(s):  
Jason Potts
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Industry Association ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Fundamental Transformation

Chapter 7 examines a life-cycle view of an innovation trajectory that begins with an innovation commons, and considers what happens after the innovation commons collapses when entrepreneurial firms emerge (i.e., the fundamental transformation). This chapter explores how the governance role of an innovation commons will often reform and reconstitute to provide industry-specific public goods through collective action, usually in the form of an industry association. This governance function is associated with what in evolutionary theory is called niche construction. This evolutionary governance model of an innovation trajectory shows the complexities of innovation policy.

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