Conference of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Social Dilemmas

社会困境跨学科工作组会议

• 批准号: 1426158
• 负责人: Louis Putterman
• 金额: $ 3.35万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1426158&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Interdisciplinary; Working; Group; Social

Funding is requested to help Brown University host the sixth biennial meeting of an interdisciplinary group of social science researchers, mainly economists and political scientists, investigating how individuals, groups, and societies can deal successfully with social dilemmas. Social dilemmas are situations in which there is a shared group interest that would be undermined, rather than served, by each individual pursuing his or her narrower selfish interest. Understanding behavior in social dilemmas, as well as institutional solutions to these dilemmas, is of broad importance at local, national, and global levels. Such solutions can help societies address fundamental issues such as poverty and environmental sustainability, problems that that contribute to both economic and political instability. Roughly 30 / 40 scholars will participate in the meeting, of whom approximately 25 will present individual research papers for comment by the group. Participants will be a mix of senior and junior scholars with an effort to incorporate especially junior scholars who have not interacted with the group previously. Most of the participants' research involves at least two of three methodologies common in this area, namely laboratory decision-making experiments, theoretical modeling, and field studies. Funding will mainly cover travel expenses and accommodations of participants, who come from multiple U.S. regions and in a few cases from abroad.The social dilemmas working group was first convened at Indiana University in 2003 by a group of scholars led by the late Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, who also helped to organize the subsequent four meetings, held at Max Planck Institute, Jena, Germany in 2006, Florida State University in 2008, Rice University in 2010, and California Institute of Technology in 2013. Regular participants have included leading contributors to economic theory and experimental economics, such as Charles Plott, John Ledyard, James Cox and James Walker, and there have been numerous other participants who are well-known contributors to the field including James Andreoni, Gary Charness, Catherine Eckel, Simon Gächter, Werner Guth, and Joe Oppenheimer. Co-organizers of the 2015 conference in addition to Walker are Louis Putterman, Pedro Dal Bó, and Rick Wilson, who have also been part of the previous meetings. Our full proposal lists numerous research publications by group members in professional journals including the American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Science. It is anticipated that the interaction among participants will help lead to progress in understanding social dilemma problems that will not only lead to future scientific publications, affecting teaching in our disciplines going forward, but also contribute to the design of better policy approaches for problems of resource management and of strengthening public institutions.

要求提供资金，以帮助布朗大学主办第六届跨学科小组的社会科学研究人员，主要是经济学家和政治学家，调查如何个人，团体和社会可以成功地处理社会困境两年一度的会议。社会困境是指存在共同的群体利益的情况，每个人追求自己狭隘的自私利益都会破坏而不是服务于这种利益。理解社会困境中的行为，以及这些困境的制度解决方案，在地方，国家和全球层面具有广泛的重要性。这种解决办法可以帮助社会解决贫困和环境可持续性等根本问题，这些问题会导致经济和政治不稳定。 大约30 / 40名学者将参加会议，其中约25人将提交个人研究论文供小组评论。 参与者将是高级和初级学者的混合，特别是那些以前没有与小组互动的初级学者。 大多数参与者的研究涉及该领域常见的三种方法中的至少两种，即实验室决策实验，理论建模和实地研究。社会困境工作组于2003年在印第安纳州大学首次召开会议，由已故诺贝尔奖赢家埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆领导的一组学者主持，奥斯特罗姆还帮助组织了随后的四次会议，于2006年在德国耶拿的马克斯·普朗克研究所举行，2008年佛罗里达州立大学，2010年莱斯大学，2013年加州理工学院。 定期参加者包括经济理论和实验经济学的主要贡献者，如查尔斯·普洛特（Charles Plott）、约翰·莱亚德（John Ledyard）、詹姆斯·考克斯（James Cox）和詹姆斯·步行者（James Walker），还有许多其他参与者是该领域的知名贡献者，包括詹姆斯·安德烈奥尼（James Andreoni）、加里·查尼斯（Gary Charness）、凯瑟琳·埃克尔（Catherine Eckel）、西蒙·盖希特（Simon Gächter）、维尔纳·古斯（Werner Guth）和乔·奥本海默（Joe Oppenheimer）。 除了步行者之外，2015年会议的共同组织者还有路易斯·普特曼、佩德罗·达尔博和里克·威尔逊，他们也参加了以前的会议。 我们的完整提案列出了小组成员在专业期刊上发表的许多研究论文，包括《美国经济评论》、《美国政治学杂志》、《经济研究评论》、《经济学季刊》和《科学》。预计与会者之间的互动将有助于在理解社会困境问题方面取得进展，这不仅将导致未来的科学出版物，影响我们学科的教学，而且还有助于为资源管理和加强公共机构的问题设计更好的政策方法。