Website for Robert Axelrod's The Complexity of Cooperation, the sequel to his 1984 The Evolution of Cooperation.
Axelrod's work deals with the idea of the two-person iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. A quote from the preface of The Complexity of Cooperation in reference to the first book:
The theme was that cooperation based upon reciprocity can evolve and sustain itself even among egoists provided there is sufficient prospect of a long term interaction.
The site also includes a good annotated bibliography from the first book.
Posted by patrick at March 4, 2003 08:39 AM