Daniel I. Rubenstein

Daniel Rubenstein will explore how cooperation emerges and maintains large and diffuse societies, where status, reputation, and even systems of justice and morality shape social relationships. He hopes to identify ways in which "mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon" -- Garrett Hardin's oft-cited solution to avoiding the "Tragedy of the Commons" can be realized and used to address environmental degradation, overpopulation, and armed conflicts.