Trust And Reciprocity by Elinor Ostrom
Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research
A concise synthesis of experimental research on how trust and reciprocal behavior emerge and endure in social and economic settings, showing that people often cooperate beyond narrow self-interest when communication, reputation, and well-designed rules are in place. Drawing on trust games, public goods, and common-pool resource experiments, it explains how norms, context, and heterogeneity affect cooperation and how monitoring, graduated sanctions, and repeated interactions can stabilize prosocial behavior. The collection distills practical insights for crafting institutions and policies that foster trust, curb free-riding, and improve collective outcomes.
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- Published
- 2003
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- English
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