id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
work_3mayozaayjcyzordp555ytt43y	Remco Heesen	Communism and the Incentive to Share in Science	2017	43	.pdf	application/pdf	14463	1216	67	The communist norm requires that scientists widely share the results of their work. I argue against Strevens that individual scientists can rationally conform to the communist norm, even in the absence of a social contract The sociologist Robert Merton first noticed that there exists an institutional norm in science that mandates widely sharing results. describing a game-theoretic model of scientists working on a research project 5I do not deny that normative expectations calling on scientists to share their work By sharing their progress, Strevens assumes, the scientists improve each other's chances of completing the research project. Above I have shown in a game-theoretic model that it is rational for creditmaximizing scientists subject to the priority rule to share their intermediate the priority rule gives scientists an incentive to share any and all intermediate results. scientist immediately shares and claims credit for any stage she completes.	./cache/work_3mayozaayjcyzordp555ytt43y.pdf	./txt/work_3mayozaayjcyzordp555ytt43y.txt