Evolution and rationality decisions, co-operation and strategic behaviour

This volume explores from multiple perspectives the subtle and interesting relationship between the theory of rational choice and Darwinian evolution. In rational choice theory, agents are assumed to make choices that maximize their utility; in evolution, natural selection 'chooses' betwee...

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Otros Autores: Okasha, Samir, editor (editor), Binmore, K. G., 1940- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2012.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Samir Okasha and Ken Binmore
  • 1. Towards a Darwinian theory of decision making: games and the biological roots of behavior / Peter Hammerstein
  • 2. What do humans maximize? / Claire El Mouden, Maxwell Burton-Chellew, Andy Gardner, and Stuart A. West
  • 3. Natural selection and rational decisions / Alasdair I. Houston
  • 4. Evolution, dynamics and rationality: the limits of ESS methodology / Simon M. Huttegger and Kevin J.S. Zollman
  • 5. Are rational actor models 'rational' outside small worlds? / Henry Brighton and Gerd Gigerenzer
  • 6. Pull, push or both? Indirect evolution in economics and beyond / Siegfried Berninghaus, Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt
  • 7. Schelling formalized: strategic choices of non-rational behaviour / David H. Wolpert and Julian Jamison
  • 8. Human cooperation and reciprocity / Jack Vromen
  • 9. Team reasoning, framing and cooperation / Natalie Gold
  • 10. An evolutionary perspective on the unification of the behavioral sciences / Herbert Gintis
  • 11. From fitness to utility / Kim Sterelny.