A büntetés dicsérete

György Marosán

György Marosán BGF Külkereskedelmi Főiskolai Kar

Keywords: game theory, evolutionary games, public good game, dictator game, prisoners dilemma, free riders, second order free riders, altruism, parochial altruism, altruistic punishment

Abstract

The article surveys the role of the institutions of punishment in the societies. In the past years – besides of analyzing the other-regarding behavior – more and more experiments were carry out examine definitely the effect of the punishment. The subjects of these experiments were partly human persons, partly agents of computer simulations. The results of the experiments show much more appropriate picture about role of the punishment institutions in the societies. The article presents the characteristics of different types – direct, indirect, and altruistic – punishments. It argues that the punishment behavior of different people depends on their personality and the life-history, and their social circumstances also. The article analyses the different types of distortion of punishments. In summary it claims that the different institutions of punishments are essential for integration of the society.