Experiment-inspired comments on John Roemer's theory of cooperation

Abstract

Motivated by Roemer s Kantian equilibrium (John Roemer, 2010, 2015, In Press) we performed some experiments on cooperation in extremely simple treatments (Bosch-Domènech and Silvestre, 2017, and Appendix below). Here we comment on some lessons that we have learned from them, and offer some thoughts on Roemer s theory of cooperation based on social situations that can be easily compared to those in our experiments.