The Possibility of Cooperation

by Michael Taylor

Book Overview

This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focusing 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 Prisoners' Dilemma supergame. It is a revised and expanded edition of the author's classic work of rational choice theory Anarchy and Cooperation, originally published with John Wiley in 1976. The analysis has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521339901
• ISBN13: 9780521339902
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"