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previous discussions of very closely related ideas

Posted by 8c8camerer on 09 Sep 2014 at 11:12 GMT

http://philpapers.org/rec...
http://www2.le.ac.uk/depa...

The idea that people abstractly imagine what is good for the group and choose accordingly is
called "team-based reasoning" in a philosophy/experimental economics literature. See citations from Sugden and Colman above (both have written more about this, and maybe others have too). Colin Camerer

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