The Possibility of Cooperation
Published on 13. August 1987
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-521-32793-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 been recast and developed here to make it more accessible to non-mathematical readers and to provide a more comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the theory of collective action. The book will be of interest to a range of readers in political and social philosophy and in economics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 line figures 4 tables
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-32793-0 (9780521327930)
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Content
Preface; 1. Introduction: the problem of collective action; 2. The prisoners' dilemma, chicken and other games in the provision of public goods; 3. The two-person prisoners' dilemma supergame; 4. The N-person prisoners' dilemma supergame; 5. Altruism and superiority; 6. The state; 7. Epilogue: cooperation, the state and anarchy; Annex; Notes; Bibliography; Index.