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Rational Interaction: Essays in Honor of John C. Harsanyi

✍ Scribed by Reinhard Selten (auth.), Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten (eds.)

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Leaves
426
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The unifying theme of the 23 contributions to this book is the social interaction of rational individuals. The work of John C. Harsanyi on game theory, social choice, and the philosophy of science finds an echo in these essays. Contributions by well known game theorists and economists present a great variety of stimulating theoretical investigations. Part I contains six papers on non-cooperative game theory written by Maschler, Owen, Myerson, Peleg, Rosenmüller, Hart and Mas-Collel. Part II with three contributions by Kalei, Samet, van Damme, d'Aspremont, and Gérard-Varet is devoted to the use of non-cooperative game theory in the analysis of problems of mechanism design. Basic questions of non-cooperative game theory are discussed in three essays by Güth, Hardin, and Sugden in Part III. Applied game models are discussed in three papers by Friedman, Selten, and Shubik in Part IV. Problems of social choice are investigated in Part V which deals with utilitarianism and related topics in five contributions by Hammond, Binmore, Arrow, Roemer, and Broome. Finally, Part VI contains three papers: an interdisciplinary comparison of physics and economics by Samuelson, a methodological essay by Brock, and an appraisal of the work of John C. Harsanyi.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
The Consistent Shapley Value for Games without Side Payments....Pages 5-12
Fictitious-Transfer Solutions in Cooperative Game Theory....Pages 13-33
The Finagle Point for Characteristic Function Games....Pages 35-44
Voting by Count and Account....Pages 45-51
Fee Games: (N)TU-Games with Incomplete Information....Pages 53-81
A Non-Cooperative Interpretation of Value and Potential....Pages 83-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Types Decomposition and Perfect Implementations....Pages 97-119
Fair Division under Asymmetric Information....Pages 121-144
Non-Transferable Utility and Bayesian Incentives....Pages 145-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Equilibrium Selection by Unilateral Deviation Stability....Pages 161-189
Determinacy and Rational Choice....Pages 191-200
Inductive Reasoning in Repeated Games....Pages 201-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Price-Quantity Oligopoly with Adjustment Costs....Pages 225-244
A Demand Commitment Model of Coalition Bargaining....Pages 245-282
The Reconciliation of Micro and Macro Economics....Pages 283-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Harsanyi’s Utilitarian Theorem: A Simpler Proof and Some Ethical Connotations....Pages 305-319
Evolution and Convention: Social Contract IV....Pages 321-331
Sex Differentiation in Annuities: Reflections on Utilitarianism and Inequality....Pages 333-336
Utilitarianism, the Difference Principle, and the Veil of Ignorance: An Application of the Theory of Social Situations....Pages 337-351
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Bernoulli, Harsanyi, and the Principle of Temporal Good....Pages 353-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Economics and Thermodynamics: von Neumann’s Problematic Conjecture....Pages 377-389
Game Theory, Symmetry, and Scientific Discovery....Pages 391-418
John C. Harsanyi, System Builder and Conceptual Innovator....Pages 419-432
Back Matter....Pages 433-438

✦ Subjects

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Economic Theory

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