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Environmental Commons Game: Is the Free Rider a “Bad Apple”?

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This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Science Research (no. 14710102), by the Foundation for the Fusion of Science and Technology, and by The Asahi Glass Foundation, to Susumu Ohnuma. The author thanks Professor Yukio Hirose for his helpful suggestions to the earlier draft of this paper, Junkichi Sugiura and Yumiko Taresawa for their collaboration in organizing the Environment Session at ISAGA 2003, and Masaki Yuki, Nobuyuki Takahashi, and Mark H.B. Radford for their editorial assistance.

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Ohnuma, S. (2005). Environmental Commons Game: Is the Free Rider a “Bad Apple”?. In: Shiratori, R., Arai, K., Kato, F. (eds) Gaming, Simulations, and Society. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-26797-2_3

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