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    Supports→A promise to share poaching proceeds is not credible without a commitment device, because the promiser has no incentive to honor the promise once the antelope is secured.

    Rational agents defect when defection is dominant and unenforceable.

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    Another example will illustrate this, as well as the applicability of principles across game-types. Here we will build an imaginary situation that is not a PD—since only one player has an incentive to defect—but which is a social dilemma insofar as its NE in the absence of commitment is Pareto-inferior to an outcome that is achievable with a commitment device. Suppose that two of us wish to poach a rare antelope from a national park in order to sell the trophy. One of us must flush the animal do

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