As CSS and AS have matured, obvious connections between them have emerged. Both are keenly interested in complexity and emergence, whereby “the behavior of entities at one ‘scale’ of reality is not easily traced to the properties of the entities at the scale below” (Watts, 2013, p. 6; see also Anderson, 1972)
The problem of cooperation and social order is one of the core issues in the social sciences. The key question is how humans, groups, institutions, and countries can avoid or overcome the collective good dilemmas that could lead to a Hobbesian war of all against all. Using the general set of social dilemmas as a paradigmatic example, rigorous formal analysis can stimulate scientific progress in…