Accumulation of Public Goods and Population Change in a Voluntary Participation Game
Year: 2005
Type: report
Abstract: We consider how public goods can be provided and accumulated over generations of self-interested individuals in the absence of a government authority. A dynamic voluntary participation game is presented to analyze interrelations among group formation, accumulation and population change. We show that the accumulation of public goods can mitigate the second-order dilemma of public goods and that it necessarily leads all individuals to participate in providing public goods in the long run. We discuss a positive effect of population increase on the accumulation of public goods.
Author: Akira Okada
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1562734811