Article: The relative-gains problem for international cooperation. (response to an article by Joseph Greico in this issue, p. 729-735)

Joseph Grieco incorrectly believes that the argument in my paper (Snidal 1991a) depends critically on special assumptions such as constant returns to scale, equality of payoffs or symmetry. In fact, the central result that bothers him is driven solely by the fact that increasing numbers of actors (n) change the strategic incentives created by relative-gains seeking. That is what I claim; it should have been readily apparent to Grieco given that my model replicates his argument regarding the inhibiting effects of relative gains among small numbers of actors even as it shows how these effects diminish as n increases. Since only the number of actors - not auxiliary ...

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