In a profit-sharing partnership where each partner bears 100% of their own effort cost but captures only 50% of the marginal value they create, the Nash equilibrium produces strictly less effort than the socially efficient level. Each partner's calculus ignores the externality they impose on their co-owner. The convergence of 'boxes within boxes' lands on a single under-worked point—partners predictably slack because private incentives diverge from joint welfare.
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