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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.

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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.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 6/27/1986 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521311830, 978-0521311830
      ISBN10: 0521311837
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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.

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