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The N-Prisoners' Dilemma: A Bureaucrat-Setter Solution*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Thomas Romer
Affiliation:
Carnegie-Mellon University
Howard Rosenthal
Affiliation:
Carnegie-Mellon University

Abstract

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Communications
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1978

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Footnotes

*

We thank John Orbell and L. A. Wilson II for helpful comments, and the Spencer Foundation and NSF for financial support.

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