Game Theory and the Social Contract

Playing Fair

Ken Binmore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

1994
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-02363-4 (ISBN)

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In Game Theory and the Social Contract, Ken Binmore argues that game theory provides a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. His reinterpretation of classical social contract ideas within a game-theoretic framework generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. He clears the way for this ambitious endeavor by first focusing on foundational issues -- paying particular attention to the failings of recent attempts to import game -- theoretic ideas into social and political philosophy.Binmore shows how ideas drawn from the classic expositions of Harsanyi and Rawls produce a synthesis that is consistent with the modern theory of noncooperative games. In the process, he notes logical weaknesses in other analyses of social cooperation and coordination, such as those offered by Rousseau, Kant, Gauthier, and Nozick. He persuasively argues that much of the current literature elaborates a faulty analysis of an irrelevant game.Game Theory and the Social Contract makes game-theoretic ideas more widely accessible to those with only a limited knowledge of the field.
Instructional material is woven into the narrative, which is illustrated with many simple examples, and the mathematical content has been reduced to a minimum.

Ken Binmore is Emeritus Professor at University College London. A Fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy, he is the author of Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 1: Playing Fair (1994) and Volume 2: Just Playing (1998), and the coeditor of Frontiers of Game Theory (1993), all three published by The MIT Press.

Part 1 A liberal leviathan: whiggery; deKanting Rawls; Behemoth and the market; elephants and donkeys. Part 2 Toying with tautologies: equilibrium; games and the social contract; my dear sir, clear your mind of Cant!; time and commitment; really meaning it. Part 3 Squaring the circle: transparent disposition fallacies; the symmetry fallacy; paradox of the twins; Newcomb's paradox; paradox of the surprise test. Part 4 Cardinal comparisons: ordinal and cardinal utility; intrapersonal comparison of utility; interpersonal comparison of utility; Kant and the prisoners' dilemma; Bayesian decision theory; Rawlsian maximin; the game of morals.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.5.1994
Zusatzinfo	37
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 229 mm
Gewicht	771 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-262-02363-6 / 0262023636
ISBN-13	978-0-262-02363-4 / 9780262023634
Zustand	Neuware