Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush
研究了1896年克朗代克淘金热中矿工共享金矿信息的独特社会规范,发现极端采矿条件和地理环境保障了采矿权安全,因此只需小额激励就能促使矿工分享信息。
When George Carmack struck gold in the Yukon territory on 17 August 1896, he freely shared the details and started what would eventually be three waves of rushes. This reflected a social norm of the Klondike, namely that any miner who struck gold would share this information. Miners did not behave this way in other nineteenth-century gold rushes. The article's hypothesis is that the extreme mining conditions and local geography of the Yukon led to very secure property rights over mining claims. Therefore, it took only a small incentive payment to induce miners to act in the social interest.