Evolution of the Social Contract

Evolution of the Social Contract
Author: Brian Skyrms
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1107434289

This new edition further develops the application of evolutionary game theory to an analysis of the origins of social contracts.

Game Theory

Game Theory
Author: Shaun Hargreaves Heap
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415250948

Requiring no more than basic arithmetic, this book provides a careful and accessible introduction to the basic pillars of Game Theory, tracing its intellectual origins and philosophical premises.

Frontiers of Game Theory

Frontiers of Game Theory
Author: K. G. Binmore
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262023566

seventeen contributions reflecting the many diverse approaches in the field todayThese seventeen contributions take up the most recent research in game theory, reflecting the many diverse approaches in the field today. They are classified in five general tactical categories - prediction, explanation, investigation, description, and prescription - and wit in these along applied and theoretical divisions. The introduction clearly lays out this framework.

Game Theory and the Law

Game Theory and the Law
Author: Douglas G. Baird
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674341111

This book is the first to apply the tools of game theory and information economics to advance our understanding of how laws work. Organized around the major solution concepts of game theory, it shows how such well known games as the prisoner's dilemma, the battle of the sexes, beer-quiche, and the Rubinstein bargaining game can illuminate many different kinds of legal problems. Game Theory and the Law highlights the basic mechanisms at work and lays out a natural progression in the sophistication of the game concepts and legal problems considered.

The Theory of Social Situations

The Theory of Social Situations
Author: Joseph Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1990-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521376891

This book, first published in 1991, offers an integrative approach to the study of formal models in the social and behavioural sciences. The theory presented here unifies both the representation of the social environment and the equilibrium concept. The theory requires that all alternatives that are available to the players be specified in an explicit and detailed manner, and this specification is defined as a social 'situation'. A situation, therefore, not only consists of the alternatives currently available to the players, but also includes the set of opportunities that might be induced by the players from their current environment. The theory requires that all recommended alternatives be both internally and externally stable; the recommendation cannot be self-defeating and, at the same time, should account for alternatives that were not recommended. In addition to unifying the representation and the solution concept, the theory also extends the social environments accommodated by current game theory.

Natural Justice

Natural Justice
Author: Ken Binmore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2005-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198039646

This book lays out foundations for a "science of morals." Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. He reinterprets classical social contract ideas within a game-theory framework and generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. In contrast to the previous writing in moral philosophy that relied on vague notion such as " societal well-being" and "moral duty," Binmore begins with individuals; rational decision-makers with the ability to empathize with one another. Any social arrangement that prescribes them to act against their interests will become unstable and eventually will be replaced by another, until one is found that includes worthwhile actions for all individuals involved.

Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition

Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition
Author: Jean Hampton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1988-08-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316583252

This major study of Hobbes' political philosophy draws on recent developments in game and decision theory to explore whether the thrust of the argument in Leviathan, that it is in the interests of the people to create a ruler with absolute power, can be shown to be cogent. Professor Hampton has written a book of vital importance to political philosophers, political and social scientists, and intellectual historians.

Game Theory and the Social Contract: Just playing

Game Theory and the Social Contract: Just playing
Author: K. G. Binmore
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 624
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262024440

Written for an interdisciplinary audience, Just Playing offers a panoramic tour through a range of new and disturbing insights that game theory brings to anthropology, biology, economics, philosophy, and psychology.