Rationality and coordination:

This book explores how individual actions coordinate to produce unintended social consequences. In the past this phenomenon has been explained as the outcome of rational, self-interested individual behavior. Professor Bicchieri shows that this is in no way a satisfying explanation. She discusses how...

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Main Author: Bicchieri, Cristina 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 1993
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory
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Summary:This book explores how individual actions coordinate to produce unintended social consequences. In the past this phenomenon has been explained as the outcome of rational, self-interested individual behavior. Professor Bicchieri shows that this is in no way a satisfying explanation. She discusses how much knowledge is needed by agents in order to coordinate successfully. If the answer is unbounded knowledge, then a whole variety of paradoxes arise
If the answer is very little knowledge, then there seems hardly any possibility of attaining coordination. The solution to coordination and cooperation is for agents to learn about each other. The author concludes that rationality must be supplemented by models of learning and by an evolutionary account of how social order (i.e., spontaneous coordinated behavior) can persist
. This major new book will be of particular interest not only to philosophers but to decision theorists, political scientists, economists, and researchers in artificial intelligence
Physical Description:XIII, 270 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0521381231

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