The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and CompetitionMacmillan, 2004 - 320 Seiten "An accessible, intriguing explanation of game theory . . . that can help explain much human behavior." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
Inhalt
The Games We All Play What They Are Why They Matter | 1 |
Sartres Dictum | 10 |
Isnt It All Too Machiavellian? | 16 |
The Regrettable Reality of Conflict | 20 |
What Itll Tell Us and What It Wont | 25 |
Duels Truels and Rules | 31 |
Mastering the Matrix | 35 |
Coordination Games | 36 |
Groups and Grouches | 146 |
Lifeboats Loners and Losers | 154 |
Games of Chicken | 163 |
Chickens One to One | 168 |
Madmen Steering Wheels and Other Ploys | 176 |
Ultimatum Games | 182 |
Social Chickens | 185 |
War and Peace | 188 |
Pascals Wager | 41 |
Simple Strategies | 44 |
Follow the Leader? | 51 |
Guessing Games | 53 |
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea | 59 |
Prisoners Dilemma and the Problem of Cooperation | 67 |
The Classic Formulation | 68 |
A Few Examples | 74 |
Forward Thinking and Backward Induction | 82 |
Other Ways Out? | 85 |
Axelrods Tournament and Rapoports TITFORTAT | 90 |
The LiveandLetLive System During World War I | 96 |
Reciprocity | 102 |
Future Tripping | 105 |
Prisoners Dilemma as Rorschach Test | 108 |
ZeroSum Jealousy | 114 |
Social Dilemmas Personal Gain Versus Public Good | 119 |
Social Dilemmas and the Social Contract | 127 |
The FreeRider Problem | 134 |
The Tragedy of the Commons | 138 |
Rousseaus Stag Hunt | 141 |
The Conscious Chicken | 193 |
Animal Antics | 199 |
SnaggleMouths SideBlotches and Stability | 202 |
Sex | 206 |
Social Dilemmas Among Natural Groups | 209 |
Hawks and Doves | 213 |
Bullies Bourgeois and Other Complications | 222 |
Dads Cads Coys and Sluts | 231 |
Different Ways of Being a Male | 235 |
Thoughts from the Underground | 243 |
On Being Unreasonable | 248 |
Stubborn Unreasonableness | 252 |
Predictable Unreasonableness | 257 |
Understandable Unreasonableness | 262 |
A Troublesome Fallacy | 266 |
Logical Vicious Circles | 270 |
Pas Trop de Zele | 273 |
Notes | 277 |
Acknowledgments | 287 |
Index | 289 |
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The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and ... David P. Barash, Ph.D. Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and ... David P. Barash Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
The Survival Game: How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and ... David P. Barash Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
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