Dancing at Gunpoint: A Review of Herbert Gintis’ Bounds of Reason
ثبت نشده
چکیده
The Bounds of Reason seeks to accomplish many things. It introduces epistemic game theory, discusses other-regarding preferences in games offers an evolutionary model of property rights, and proposes a plan to unify the behavioural sciences. Most notable, it is a plea for the importance of human nature and sociality for the determination of strategic behaviour on the one hand, and a defence of traditional decision theory on the other.
منابع مشابه
Dancing at gunpoint . A review of Herbert Gintis ’ s
Dancing at gunpoint. A review of Herbert Gintis's The bounds of reason: game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences. The bounds of reason seeks to accomplish many things. It introduces epistemic game theory, discusses other-regarding preferences in games, offers an evolutionary model of property rights, and proposes a plan to unify the behavioural sciences. Most notably, it is a ...
متن کاملThe Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences by Herbert Gintis
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,...
متن کاملAmerican Economic Association In Search of Homo Economicus : Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small - Scale Societies
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies Author(s): Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 2001), pp. 73-78 Published by: American...
متن کاملA note on Herbert Gintis’ “Emergence of a Price System from Decentralized Bilateral Exchange ”
In two recent contributions, Herbert Gintis introduces agent-based imitation models built upon evolutionary bargaining games where agents use private prices as strategies. He reports surprising convergence results for simulations performed in exchange economies where goods are strict complement. We investigate analytically these results using the notion of stochastic stability.
متن کاملStochastic stability in the Scarf economy
We present a mathematical model for the analysis of the bargaining games based on private prices used by Gintis to simulate the dynamics of prices in exchange economies, see [Gintis 2007]. We then characterize, in the Scarf economy, a class of dynamics for which the Walrasian equilibrium is the only stochastically stable state. Hence, we provide dynamic foundations for general equilibrium for o...
متن کامل