Rationality and Coordination

Klappentext This book explores how individual actions coordinate to produce unintended social consequences. In the past this phenomenon has been explained as the outcome of rational, self-interested individual behaviour. Professor Bicchieri shows that this is in no way a satisfying explanation. She discusses how much knowledge is needed by agents in order to coordinate successfully. If the answer is unbounded knowledge, then a whole variety of paradoxes arise. If the answer is very little knowledge, then there seems hardly any possibility of attaining coordination. The solution to coordination and cooperation is for agents to learn about each other. The author concludes that rationality must be supplemented by models of learning and by an evolutionary account of how social order (i.e. spontaneous coordinated behaviour) can persist. Zusammenfassung This book explores how individual actions coordinate to produce unintended social consequences. In the past this phenomenon has been explained as the outcome of rational! self-interested individual behaviour. Professor Bicchieri shows that this is in no way a satisfying explanation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Rationality and predictability; 2. Equilibrium; 3. Epistemic rationality; 4. Self-fulfilling theories; 5. Paradoxes of rationality; 6. Learning and norms: the case of cooperation.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Cristina Bicchieri, Cristina (Carol and Michael Lowenstein Bicchieri, Bicchieri Cristina
• Con la collaborazione di: Ken Binmore (Editore), Brian Skyrms (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.03.1997
• EAN: 9780521574440
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57444-0
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Probabili; Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Management; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge