Conference of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Social Dilemmas

请求提供资金，以帮助布朗大学主办社会科学研究人员(主要是经济学家和政治学家)组成的跨学科小组的第六次两年一度的会议，调查个人、群体和社会如何成功应对社会困境。社会困境是这样一种情况，在这种情况下，每个人追求自己狭隘的私利，都会损害而不是服务于共同的集体利益。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、国家和全球层面都具有广泛的重要性。这种解决办法可以帮助社会解决诸如贫困和环境可持续性等根本问题，这些问题都是造成经济和政治不稳定的原因。大约30/40的学者将参加会议，其中约25人将提交个人研究论文，征求该小组的意见。参与者将是高级和初级学者的混合，努力吸收特别是以前没有与该小组互动的初级学者。大多数参与者的研究至少涉及这一领域常见的三种方法中的两种，即实验室决策实验、理论建模和实地研究。资金将主要用于支付与会者的旅费和住宿费，他们来自美国多个地区，少数情况下来自国外。社会困境工作组于2003年首次在印第安纳大学召开，由已故诺贝尔奖获得者埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆领导的一群学者领导，奥斯特罗姆还帮助组织了随后的四次会议，分别是2006年在德国耶拿的马克斯·普朗克研究所，2008年在佛罗里达州立大学，2010年在赖斯大学，2013年在加州理工学院。定期参与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、约翰·莱德亚德、詹姆斯·考克斯和詹姆斯·沃克，还有许多其他参与者是该领域的知名贡献者，包括詹姆斯·安德罗尼、加里·查内斯、凯瑟琳·埃克尔、西蒙·盖克特、维尔纳·古斯和乔·奥本海默。除了沃克，2015年大会的联合组织者还有路易斯·帕特曼、佩德罗·达尔·博罗和里克·威尔逊，他们也是之前会议的一部分。我们的完整提案列出了小组成员在专业期刊上发表的大量研究论文，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两难问题方面取得进展，这些问题不仅将导致未来的科学出版物，影响我们学科今后的教学，而且还有助于设计更好的政策方法来解决资源管理和加强公共机构的问题。

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.