petersuber<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DavidAsch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidAsch</span></a> is right: "Colleges Face a Prisoner’s Dilemma. If we don’t band together, we’ll all get skewered alone."<br><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-face-a-prisoners-dilemma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chronicle.com/article/colleges</span><span class="invisible">-face-a-prisoners-dilemma</span></a><br>(<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a>) </p><p>"What is surprising is that these <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a>, all facing the same challenges, and forewarned of them, are largely facing them alone. The absence of a meaningfully coordinated defense might have been predicted from the “prisoner’s dilemma,” a classic game-theory framework that reveals why rational actors often fail to cooperate against a common enemy — even when doing so would benefit them."</p><p>PS: Law firms too. Nonprofits too. </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PrisonersDilemma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonersDilemma</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>