Game Equilibrium Models II: Methods, Morals, and Markets / Edition 1

by Reinhard Selten, D. Abreu, W. Albers, K. Binmore, R. Gardner

Overview

This paper represents the collaborative work of a game theorist and a policy analyst in an attempt to examine severa! questions that go to the hearl of the way individuala achieve social order. The capacity of any individual to undertake long-term, productive activities that affect and are affected by the actiona of other individuala dependa upon gaining a minimallevel of predictability among those involved. No one could successfully drive to work if the behavior of other drivera were noi relatively predictable. No one could operate a stare, if potential consumers did not purcha. se, rather than stea!, the commodities offered to the public. No one would ma. ke a. ny investments other than those tha. t would be made by a solitary individual in an isolated setting (the cla. ssic Robinson Crusoe situation). One of the ways that individuals achieve predictability in social arrangements is to a. gree to follow a set of normative prescriptions a. bout what they must, must not, or may do. Agreeing to a set of prescriptions is relatively easy. Actually following those prescriptions over time when temptations arise offering potentially high payoffs, is not at all easy. In natural settings, individUala follow agreed upon prescriptions to a greater or lesser extent depending on enforcement levels. A frequent assumption made by policy ana. lysts a. nd game theorists is tha. t enforcement is externa! to the situa. tion under analysis. That a.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642081095
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Pages:	369
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

to the Series “Game Equilibrium Models”.- to Volume II: “Methods, Morals and Markets”.- The Algebraic Geometry of Games and the Tracing Procedure.- A Perspective on Renegotiation in Repeated Games.- On Supergames and Folk Theorems: A Conceptual Discussion.- It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Play.- Game Theory and the Social Contract.- Anarchy and Agreement — a Game Theoretic Analysis of Some Aspects of Contractarianism.- Irrigation Institutions and the Games Irrigators Play: Rule Enforcement without Guards.- Equilibrium Selection in the Spence Signaling Game.- Interaction Between Resource Extraction and Futures Markets: A Game-Theoretic Analysis.- A Framing Effect Observed in a Market Game.- Rent Dissipation and Balanced Deviation Disequilibrium in Common Pool Resources: Experimental Evidence.