Douglas_Knight comments on Three Parables of Microeconomics - LessWrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 May 2014 06:57:48PM *  2 points [-]

None of the examples in your link are prisoners' dilemmas. If I had a copy of the book, how could I find relevant examples? And if I have an example that looks coordinated, how can I tell that it was not explicitly coordinated?

Comment author: Desrtopa 13 May 2014 09:23:22PM 1 point [-]

I don't remember wherein the book you would find the relevant examples, since it's been about a year since I returned it to the library.

If you have an example that looks coordinated, then it's possible that it was explicitly coordinated, but in practical terms, explicit collusion that we can't catch and prevent has largely the same effect as implicit collusion.