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995252
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b749622
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Bicchieri, Cristina.
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| Title & Author
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Rationality and coordination /\ Cristina Bicchieri.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1993.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory
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xiii, 270 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521381231
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: 0521574447
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: 9780521381239
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: 9780521574440
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Rationality and predictability -- 2. Equilibrium -- 3. Epistemic rationality -- 4. Self-fulfilling theories -- 5. Paradoxes of rationality -- 6. Learning and norms: The case of cooperation.
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| Abstract
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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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Decision making.
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Equilibrium.
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Game theory.
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Calcul économique.
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Decision making.
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Decision making.
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Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit
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Entscheidungsprozess
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Entscheidungstheorie
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Équilibre (économie politique)
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Équilibre.
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Equilibrium.
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Equilibrium.
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Game theory.
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Game theory.
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Gleichgewichtspunkt
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Prise de décision.
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Rationale Erwartung
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Spieltheorie
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Théorie des jeux.
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Coördinatie.
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Groepsdynamica.
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Handelingstheorie.
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Rationaliteit.
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Speltheorie.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.4/03
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| LC Classification
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HB144.B53 1993
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