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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
K G Binmore |
| ISBN: | 0262024446 9780262024440 |
| OCLC Number: | 39797839 |
| Description: | xxiii, 589 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction - setting the scene: whither away? the art of compromise; moral philosophy; non-cooperative game theory; cooperative game theory; Nash program; implementation. Part 1 Nuances of negotiations: realistic bargaining models; bargaining problems; bargaining solutions; characterizing bargaining solutions; bargaining with commitment; trustless transactions; bargaining without commitment; other approaches to bargaining. Part 2 Evolution in Eden: the good, the right, and the seemly; utilitarianism; fictitious postulatum? evolutionary ethics; evolution and justice; non-teleological utilitarianism; morality as a short-run phenomenon. Part 3 Rationalizing reciprocity: back-scratching; rights in a theory of the seemly; Folk theorem; social contracts in big societies; the role of the emotions; due process; renegation; what about moral values? Part 4 Yearning for utopia: envy; equity in economics; equity in psychology; equity in anthropology; the game of morals; worthiness and power; the market and the long run; unfinished business; a perfect commonwealth?; humean and humane. Appendices: really meaning it! Harsanyi scholarship; bargaining theory. |
| Series Title: | Game theory and the social contract, v. 2. |
| Other Titles: | Game theory and the social contract II |
| Responsibility: | Ken Binmore. |
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"Ken Binmore's Game Theory and the Social Contract is the mostimportant work in social philosophy since John Rawls' Theory ofJustice. It is highly original, insightful, and will be a focalpoint for social theory." Brian Skyrms , Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine Read more...
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