From the Tragedy of the Commons to Paris

The Prompt

Trace the game-theoretic analysis of climate cooperation from Hardin's 1968 "Tragedy of the Commons" through Nordhaus's DICE model and Barrett's treaty analysis to the Paris Agreement of 2015. Explain why the problem is harder than a standard Prisoner's Dilemma — asymmetric payoffs, intergenerational stakes, scientific uncertainty, strategic information manipulation. Cite at least four sources and state what game theory predicts about the prospects for the current cooperative framework.

Completion Criteria

A short essay of four or five paragraphs with at least four citations, covering Hardin, Nordhaus, Barrett, and the Paris Agreement.

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