The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences - Revised Edition

Herbert Gintis

ISBN 10: 0691160848 / ISBN 13: 9780691160849

Published by Princeton University Press, 2014

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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. This title demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 line illus. BIC Classification: PBUD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 253 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508. . 2014. Revised. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences - Revised Edition
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691160848
• ISBN 13: 9780691160849
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.

Reinvigorating game theory, The Bounds of Reason offers innovative thinking for the behavioral sciences.

About the Author

Herbert Gintis holds faculty positions at the Santa Fe Institute and Central European University. He is the author of Game Theory Evolving (Princeton), coauthor of A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution with Samuel Bowles (Princeton), and the coeditor of numerous books, including Moral Sentiments and Material Interests, Unequal Chances (Princeton), and Foundations of Human Sociality.