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    It is not the case that Commitment through concern for reputation is not perfectly effective as a mechanism for ensuring cooperative behavior.

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    • 1.There are cases in which the payoff from defecting in a current round becomes too great relative to the longer-run value of reputation to future cooperation.
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    • 2.When the short-term defection payoff dominates the long-run reputational value, agents will defect despite reputational concerns.
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    • 1.Reputation mechanisms require common knowledge of agent rationality and payoff structures, conditions Gauthier and Parfit identify as rarely obtaining in real social contexts.
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    • 2.When agents face uncertainty about others' discount rates or time horizons, reputational signals become epistemically unreliable and cannot guarantee cooperative equilibria.
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    • 3.Hume's observation that self-interest is notoriously shortsighted entails that agents systematically underweight future reputational costs against present defection gains.
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    • 1.In finitely repeated games, backward induction dissolves reputational incentives entirely at the final round, unraveling cooperation from the start (Selten 1978).
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    • 2.Rational agents who anticipate the final-round defection adjust expectations backward, making reputation structurally insufficient in bounded interactions.
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