The bounds of reason game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences / 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, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gintis, Herbert, 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Decision Theory and Human Behavior
  • 2. Game Theory: Basic Concepts
  • 3. Game Theory and Human Behavior
  • 4. Rationalizability and Common Knowledge of Rationality
  • 5. Extensive Form Rationalizability
  • 6. The Mixing Problem: Purification and Conjectures
  • 7. Bayesian Rationality and Social Epistemology
  • 8. Common Knowledge and Nash Equilibrium
  • 9. Reflective Reason and Equilibrium Refinements
  • 10. The Analytics of Human Sociality
  • 11. The Endowment Effect and the Evolution of Private Property
  • 12. The Unification of the Behavioral Sciences.