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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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Anarchism, Prisoner's dilemma game, Game theory, The State

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Table of Contents

Preface Page ix
1. Introduction: the problem of collective action Page 1
The provision of public and other non-excludable goods Page 5
The Prisoners’ Dilemma Page 13
The problem of collective action Page 18
Time and the lone exploiter Page 20
Solutions? Community, states, entrepreneurs, property rights and norms Page 21
Plan of the rest of the book Page 30
2. The Prisoners’ Dilemma, Chicken and other games in the provision of public goods Page 34
Alternatives to the Prisoners’ Dilemma Page 35
An N-person game of Chicken Page 40
Mutual aid, fisheries and voting in committees Page 43
Pre-commitment as a risky decision and the prospects for cooperation in Chicken games Page 45
Continuous strategy sets Page 49
Cournot analysis Page 56
A summary remark Page 58
3. The two-person Prisoners’ Dilemma supergame Page 60
Supergames Page 60
Unconditional Cooperation and Defection Page 64
The possibility of conditional Cooperation Page 65
An Assurance game Page 67
Conditions for (B, B) to be an equilibrium Page 67
Axelrod’s tournaments Page 69
Coordination equilibria Page 71
Other mutual Cooperation equilibria Page 73
Taking it in turns to Cooperate Page 76
Outcomes Page 78
4. The N-person Prisoners’ Dilemma supergame Page 82
Payoffs in the constituent game Page 83
Unconditional Cooperation and Defection Page 84
Conditional Cooperation Page 84
Subgroups of Cooperators Page 88
Chickens nesting in the Prisoners’ Dilemma supergame Page 92
Other Cooperative equilibria Page 94
An example Page 96
Alternation between blocks of conditional cooperators Page 99
Summary and discussion of results Page 104
A more realistic model Page 105
5. Altruism and superiority Page 109
Altruism in two-person games Page 112
An N-person Game of Difference Page 122
6. The state Page 125
Hobbes’s Leviathan Page 126
Hume’s Leviathan Page 150
7. Epilogue: cooperation, the state and anarchy Page 164
International anarchy Page 165
The destruction of community Page 166
The decay of voluntary cooperation Page 168
Rationality Page 175
Annex: the theory of metagames Page 180
Notes Page 185
Bibliography Page 198
Index Page 203

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Cambridge, USA
Series
Studies in Rationality and Social Change
Other Titles
Possibility of Cooperation

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.5/7
Library of Congress
HX833, HX833 .T38 1987

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Paperback
Pagination
xiii, 205p.
Number of pages
205
Dimensions
21.5 x 14 x 1.5 centimeters
Weight
300 grams

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OL26352176M
ISBN 10
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747805230
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