Hardin Indeterminacy and Society

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4896-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Russell Hardin is Professor of Politics at New York University. He is the author of numerous books including One for All (Princeton), Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy, and Morality within the Limits of Reason.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardin, Russell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi

Chapter 1. Indeterminacy 1

Strategic Interaction 3

Ordinalism 9

Mutual Advantage: The Collective Implication of Self-Interest 12

Concluding Remarks 14

Chapter 2. Beyond Basic Rationality 16

Basic Rationality 17

Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma 20

Dominance 25

Equilibrium 28

Contract by Convention 32

Nuclear Arms Control 34

Against Determinacy 36

Concluding Remarks 38

Chapter 3. Mutual Advantage 41

Social Order 42

Ex Ante Mutual Advantage 44

Institutional and Policy Choice 46

Policies 51

Concluding Remarks 53

Chapter 4. The Greatest Sum 55

Subjective Benthamite Utility 58

Labor Theory of Value 60

Wealth Maximization 62

Mutual Advantage and Interpersonal Comparisons 63

Ordinal Utilitarianism 65

Concluding Remarks 68

Chapter 5. Marginal Determinacy 70

Indeterminacy on the Frontier 71

Marginal versus Fundamental Values 74

Transaction Costs 78

Concluding Remarks 79

Chapter 6. Rules for Determinacy 81

Rules 83

A Kantian Principle 87

Institutional Decisions 93

Public Policy 96

Concluding Remarks 98

Chapter 7. Indeterminate Justice 102

Equality versus Productive Efficiency 106

Justice as Fairness 108

Mutual Advantage 109

Justice as Fairness and the Coase Theorem 111

Resources 112

Primary Goods 114

The Difference Principle 116

Concluding Remarks 118

Chapter 8. Mechanical Determinacy 121

Marginalism 123

Two-Stage Theory 125

Institutional Fallibility 127

Institutions as Meliorative 131

Contractarian Arguments 134

Concluding Remarks 135

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 2:

DETERMINACY IN ITERATED PRISONER'S DILEMMA 139

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4:

INDIVIDUALLY CARDINAL UTILITY 141

NOTES 143

REFERENCES 151

INDEX 159

Über Autor(innen)

Russell Hardin is Professor of Politics at New York University. He is the author of numerous books including One for All (Princeton), Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy, and Morality within the Limits of Reason.