He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. Axelrod is a member of the american national academy of sciences and the american academy of arts and sciences. Robert is a wellknown expert in behaviour analysis and game theory. The evolution of cooperation robert axelrod, robert m. The evolution of cooperation by robert axelrod book. The evolution of cooperation robert axelrod professor of political science and public policy, university of michigan, ann arbor. Deductions from the model, and the results of a computer. Conflict resolution axelrod 1980a and 1980 b, and are presented here in revised form in chapter 2. Let me stop to explain how freedom and cooperation are two words for the same thing, rightly understood, or the above paragraph will not make any sense at all. Although i had read a lot about axelrods work and am quite familiar with the body of literature that it inspired, i had never actually read his book cover to cover.
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