TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gintis,Herbert
TI  - The bounds of reason game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences: Herbert Gintis
SN  - 9780691140520
U1  - 300.15195 21
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - TEORIA DE LOS JUEGOS
KW  - COMPORTAMIENTO
KW  - CIENCIAS SOCIALES
KW  - EPISTEMOLOGIA
KW  - PSICOLOGIA
KW  - CONDUCTA
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas; 1. Decision Theory and Human Behavior -- 2. Game Theory: Basic Concepts -- 3. Game Theory and Human Behavior -- 4. Rationalizability and Common Knowledge of Rationality -- 5. Extensive Form Rationalizability -- 6. The Mixing Problem: Purification and Conjectures -- 7. Bayesian Rationality and Social Epistemology -- 8. Common Knowledge and Nash Equilibrium -- 9. Reflective Reason and Equilibrium Refinements -- 10. The Analytics of Human Sociality -- 11. The Endowment Effect and the Evolution of Private Property -- 12. The Unification of the Behavioral Sciences.
N2  - Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences--from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without game theory is a handicapped enterprise.
Gintis illustrates, for instance, that game theory lacks explanations for when and how rational agents share beliefs. Rather than construct a social epistemology or reasoning process that reflects the real world, game theorists make unwarranted assumptions which imply that rational agents enjoy a commonality of beliefs. But, Gintis explains, humans possess unique forms of knowledge and understanding that move us beyond being merely rational creatures to being social creatures. For a better understanding of human behavior, Gintis champions a unified approach and in doing so shows that the dividing lines between the behavioral disciplines make no scientific sense. He asks, for example, why four separate fields--economics, sociology, anthropology, and social psychology--study social behavior and organization, yet their basic assumptions are wildly at variance. The author argues that we currently have the analytical tools to render the behavioral disciplines mutually coherent.
Combining the strengths of the classical, evolutionary, and behavioral fields, The Bounds of Reason reinvigorates the useful tools of game theory and offers innovative thinking for the behavioral sciences
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