Jamal Awil

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Cooperation arises from egoistic fear of sovereign sanctions [causal]

The motivation to cooperation is egoistic, since it lies essentially in the fear of the sanctions of the sovereign. However, the motivation to cooperation is also a macromotivation, because what the sovereign's sanctions are designed to bring about (among other things) is a motivation, in general, to cooperate. It is not an accident that, from egoistic considerations, the agent on these various occasions cooperated: he knew that what he had egoistic reason to do was, precisely, to cooperate.

DEFINE: Clarifies the distinction between egoistic (sanction-fearing) and macromotivation (system-designed) cooperation motives.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 195