Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences - Revised Edition
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Spieltheorie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
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Preface xi
1 Decision Theory and Human Behavior 1
1.1 Beliefs, Preferences, and Constraints 4
1.2 The Rationality of Time Inconsistency 9
1.3 Bayesian Rationality and Subjective Priors 12
1.4 Preferences Are State-Dependent 16
1.5 The Behavioral Revolution 18
2 Game Theory: Basic Concepts 33
2.1 The Extensive Form 33
2.2 The Normal Form 36
2.3 Nash Equilibrium 38
2.4 Correlated Equilibrium 47
3 Game Theory and Human Behavior 48
3.1 Behavioral Game Theory 49
3.2 Character Virtues 76
3.3 The Situational Character of Preferences 78
3.4 The Dark Side of Altruistic Cooperation 79
3.5 Norms of Cooperation: Cross-Cultural Variation 81
4 Rationalizability and Common Knowledge of Rationality 86
4.1 Dominated and Iteratedly Dominated Strategies 87
4.2 Epistemic Games 94
4.3 Rationalizable Strategies 98
4.4 Common Knowledge of Rationality 100
5 Extensive Form Rationalizability 106
5.1 Backward Induction and Dominated Strategies 106
5.2 CKR Fails off the Backward Induction Path 113
5.3 How to Play the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma 114
5.4 Backward Induction and Extensive Form CKR 116
5.5 On the Inadmissibility of CKR 120
6 The Logical Antinomies of Knowledge 123
6.1 The Pitfalls of Näive Epistemic Logic 123
6.2 The Common Knowledge of Logicality Paradox 124
6.3 The Surprise Examination 125
6.4 The Modal Logic of Knowledge 126
6.5 A Truth That Cannot Be Known 128
7 The Mixing Problem: Purification and Conjectures 131
7.1 The Incoherence of Mixed Strategies 131
7.2 Purifying Mixed Strategies 133
7.3 A Reputational Model of Honesty and Corruption 135
7.4 Epistemic Games: Mixed Strategies as Conjectures 138
8 Bayesian Rationality and Social Epistemology 142
8.1 The Sexes: From Battle to Ballet 143
8.2 The Choreographer Trumps Backward Induction 144
8.3 Convention as Correlated Equilibrium 146
8.4 The Social Epistemology of Common Priors 149
8.5 The Social Epistemology of Common Knowledge 151
8.6 Social Norms 153
8.7 Game Theory and the Evolution of Norms 153
9 Common Knowledge and Nash Equilibrium 156
9.1 Nash Equilibrium in Two-Player Games 156
9.2 The Modal Logic of Common Knowledge 159
9.3 The Commonality of Knowledge 162
9.4 The Demise of Methodological Individualism 171
10 The Analytics of Human Sociality 174
10.1 Explaining Cooperation: An Overview 174
10.2 The Folk Theorem 178
10.3 Cooperation with Private Signaling 186
10.4 One Cheer for the Folk Theorem 188
10.5 Altruistic Punishing in the Public Goods Game 190
10.6 The Failure of Models of Self-Regarding Cooperation 193
11 The Unification of the Behavioral Sciences 194
11.1 Gene-Culture Coevolution: The Biological Model 196
11.2 Biological and Cultural Dynamics 202
11.3 The Socio-Psychological Theory of Norms 204
11.4 Socialization and the Internalization of Norms 206
11.5 Varieties of Behavioral Modeling 207
11.6 Society as a Complex Adaptive System 215
11.7 The Behavioral Disciplines Can Be Unified 219
12 Summary 221
12.1 Game Theory 221
12.2 Commonality of Beliefs 221
12.3 The Limits of Rationality 222
12.4 Social Norms as Correlated Equilibria 222
12.5 Reason Is Bounded by Sociality, Not Irrationality 223
13 Table of Symbols 224
References 226
Subject Index 254
Author Index 258
