In early twentieth-century China, goods were transported by barges pulled by teams of six men who were rewarded heavily if they arrived at their destination on time. Because each man calculated that success depended largely on the efforts of the other five, teams were plagued by chronic shirking. If everyone else is pulling hard, the team will make it anyway, so why pull hard? If nobody else is pulling hard, the team won't make it anyway, so why pull hard? Everyone makes the same rational calculation, everyone shirks, the goods arrive late, and nobody gets paid. (查看原文)
Barge teams quickly evolved a mechanism for averting such unfortunate outcomes. The six team members collectively hired a seventh man to whip them. (查看原文)
http://headsalon.org/archives/376.html （原书名是The Armchair Economist，中信取的书名真是恶心透顶，让我都不好意思推荐这本书） 我注意到Landsburg是因为Steven Pinker在How The Mind Works中讨论单偶制婚姻时引用了他的分析（见〈单偶制婚姻与欧佩克〉），我预感到，...
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whig
中信出版社2008版
风云剑客
中信出版社2008版
BullShitter
Free Press2012版
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