The public goods game is a standard of experimental economics. In the basic game, subjects secretly choose how many of their private tokens to put into a public pot. The tokens in this pot are multiplied by a factor (>1) and this "public good" payoff is evenly divided among players. Each subject also keeps the tokens they do not contribute.
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