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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/200
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The collapse of cooperation: The endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergence


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Authors: Cordes, Christian  
Elsner, Wolfram  
Graebner, Claudius  
Heinrich, Torsten  
Schwardt, Henning 
Schwesinger, Georg  
Su, Tong-Yaa 
Henkel, Joshua  
Publisher: Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP) 
Abstract: 
Decline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some of its concomitants, such as international migration, have become topical in the globalized world. Aspects of the phenomenon have also become known as failing states. However, the focus in most social sciences has been on institutional emergence and persistence, not collapse. We develop an endogenous explanation of collapsing institutions. Collapse may be an implication of the very economic success of institutionalized cooperation and of increasing system complexity, when cognitive conditions for effective collective decision-making do not proportionately evolve. Moreover, we show that collapse is not a simple logical reverse of emergence. Rather, institutions break up at different factor constellations than the ones prevailing at emergence. We approach endogenous institutional break-up and its asymmetry from various paradigmatic and disciplinary perspectives, employing psychology, anthropology, network analysis, and institutional economics. These perspectives cover individuals, groups, interaction-arenas, populations, and social networks.
Keywords: Anthropology, cognitive capacities, cooperation, economic decline, game theory, institutional emergence, network analysis, social institutions
Issue Date: 2020
Journal/Edited collection: Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation 
Volume: #2004
Pages: 28
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
ISSN: 2629-3994
Secondary publication: no
DOI: 10.26092/elib/200
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00108576-15
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: Fachbereich 07: Wirtschaftswissenschaft (FB 07) 
Institute: IERP - Institute for Economic Research and Policy 
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