Evolution and Rationality: Decisions, Co-Operation and Strategic Behaviour
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Review of Samir Okasha and Ken Binmore ’ s Evolution and rationality : decisions , co - operation , and strategic behaviour . Cambridge : Cambridge University
There is a long history of sharing models between evolutionary biology and economics. Most famous is of course the introduction of game theory from economics into biology, which was then transformed into evolutionary game theory and re-imported into economics (Grüne-Yanoff 2011). Another area where both biology and economics have things to say is on cooperation. Both evolutionary biology and ra...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Europe’s Journal of Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1841-0413
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v10i2.783