The Possibility of Cooperation

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-33990-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

Reihe: Studies in Rationality and Social Change

This book is a revised and expanded edition of the author's 'Anarchy and Cooperation', originally published with John Wiley. It offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focussing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoner's Dilemma supergame. It will be of interest to a range of readers in political and social philosophy and in economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Introduction: the problem of collective action; 2. The prisoners' dilemma, chicken and other games in the provision of public goods; 3. The two-person prisoners' dilemma supergame; 4. The N-person prisoners' dilemma supergame; 5. Altruism and superiority; 6. The state; 7. Epilogue: cooperation, the state and anarchy; Annex; Notes; Bibliography; Index.