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> a) what do economists as a group (as opposed to HET people) consider 
> to be the "classic" papers in making effective or innovative use of 
> the prisoner's dilemma game in the economics field (as opposed to in 
> political science, biology etc)? 
  
 
One candidate must be William Baumol's (1949) LSE dissertation,  
published as Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State (1952),  
which was praised highly in Buchanan and Tullock's The Calculus of  
Consent (1962) (note 1, Chapter 5). 
 
E. Roy Weintraub 
Duke University 
 
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