Rational Behaviour and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations
Rational Behaviour and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations
John C. Harsanyi
June 1986
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This is a paperback edition of a major contribution to the field, first published in hard covers in 1977. The book outlines a general theory of rational behaviour consisting of individual decision theory, ethics, and game theory as its main branches. Decision theory deals with a rational pursuit of individual utility; ethics with a rational pursuit of the common interests of society; and game theory with an interaction of two or more rational individuals, each pursuing his own interests in a rational manner.
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June 1986Paperback
9780521311830
328 pages
229 × 151 × 20 mm
0.51kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Preliminaries:
- 1. Bargaining-equilibrium analysis: a new approach to game theory and to the analysis of social behavior
- 2. Rational-choice models of social behavior
- 3. Rational behavior under certainty, risk, and uncertainty
- 4. Morality and social welfare A constructive approach
- Part II. General principles:
- 5. Some basic concepts of game theory
- 6. Rationality postulates for game situations
- 7. The four basic problems facing the players of a game
- Part III. Solutions for specific classes of games:
- 8. Two-person simple bargaining games: the Nash solution
- 9. General two-person cooperative games
- 10. n-Person simple bargaining games
- 11. n-Person cooperative games with transferable utility: the modified Shapley value
- 12. n-person cooperative games: the general case
- 13. n-Person cooperative games: discriminatory solutions
- 14. Noncooperative and almost-noncooperative games.
