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Klappentext This is a paperback edition of a major contribution to the field! first published in hard covers in 1977. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
