Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory

by Michael O. Bacharach

Book Overview

Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation--most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary features of "focal points" to solve coordination problems, and that people sometimes cooperate in "prisoner's dilemmas." Addressing a wide readership...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691120056
• ISBN13: 9780691120058
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"