The bounds of reason game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences /

• Main Author: Gintis, Herbert.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Game theory.; Practical reason.; Human behavior.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Psychology.; MATHEMATICS > Game Theory.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Research.; Electronic books.
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences--from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement...

Table of Contents:

• Decision theory and human behavior
• Game theory : basic concepts
• Game theory and human behavior
• Rationalizability and common knowledge of rationality
• Extensive form rationalizability
• The mixing problem : purification and conjectures
• Bayesian rationality and social epistemology
• Common knowledge and Nash equilibrium
• Reflective reason and equilibrium refinements
• The analytics of human sociality
• The evolution of property rights
• The unification of the behavioral sciences
• Summary
• Table of symbols.