Consider the case of global environmental problems that spill across international borders as a prisoner’s dilemma of the sort studied in
- In Table 12.10, fill in the costs, benefits, and total payoffs to the countries of the following decisions. Explain why, without some international agreement, they are likely to end up with neither country acting to protect the environment.
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