Wealth inequality among nations can enhance cooperation on issues such as global climate change, a study finds. To date, global climate summits have faced conflicts over mitigation strategies between rich and poor countries. Addressing the issue from a theoretical perspective, Simon Levin and colleagues incorporated analogous real-world wealth inequality into a mathematical model called the public goods dilemma, a standard economics game in which participants must cooperate to enact collective action or risk overall collapse.
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