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There are also third-order rules, which depend additionally on the score of the donor after all, a person with a poor reputation might try to “buy” a good one by being more generous to those with good reputations.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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(And public choice issues are, we now know, of second - or third-order importance.)
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(Neither of these percentages includes second - or third-order costs of war, which allows for a fair comparison even if one disputes the exact figures.)
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"We understand that there are second - and third-order effects to picking a strategy purely because of the efficiency of it," Dussault said.
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This would be doing something like Kaufmann's third-order theology, rather than the first-order theology which you seem to assuming -- one of the things I've learned from Anthony Pinn is that sometimes you have to describe what's out there in order to move forward.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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He cites a study that estimates that holiday gift giving in the United States costs society $4B, not to mention the countless hassles of returns, exchanges, and the second and third-order effects of regifting bad gifts.
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"We understand that there are second - and third-order effects to picking a strategy purely because of the efficiency of it," Dussault said.
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"We understand that there are second - and third-order effects to picking a strategy purely because of the efficiency of it," Dussault said.
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He cites a study that estimates that holiday gift giving in the United States costs society $4B, not to mention the countless hassles of returns, exchanges, and the second and third-order effects of regifting bad gifts.
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"We understand that there are second - and third-order effects to picking a strategy purely because of the efficiency of it," Dussault said.
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