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  • Tech Leaders and Obama Find Shared Problem: Fading Public Trust

    The title of this blog post is a headline from the NYTimes on 18 Dec. 2014, B1. Here is a reaction written back in January 2014. Trust is…

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  • Prisoners and Dictators

    The following was originally posted 11/1/2008 on etcn.typepad.com and may refer to OpenBEDM under the project name Pygar. Recently, I attended a lecture by Simon A. Levin (Princeton…

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  • Normative Mechanisms

    The following item was originally published on ectn.typepad.com 11/1/2008 when the OpenBEDM project went under the name Pygar. A Situation to Motivate the Discussion. When for example might…

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  • Evolving Cooperation on the Network

    How Does Cooperation Evolve from Competition? The following essay was published 11/3/2008 to state a larger purpose for OpenBEDM, which was then called the “Pygar Project”. Motivation in…

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