Cooperative microeconomics : a game-theoretic introduction /

Over the past fifty years game theory has had a major impact on the field of economics. It was for work in game theory that the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded. Although non-cooperative game theory is better known, the theory of cooperative games has contributed a number of fundamental ide...

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Main Author: Moulin, Hervé (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
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Summary:Over the past fifty years game theory has had a major impact on the field of economics. It was for work in game theory that the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded. Although non-cooperative game theory is better known, the theory of cooperative games has contributed a number of fundamental ideas to microeconomic analysis. Cooperative Microeconomics is the definitive textbook on these contributions. Designed to be used by undergraduate and graduate students, the book provides a thorough introduction and overview of its subject. Herve Moulin distinguishes among three primary modes of cooperation: cooperation by direct agreements; cooperation by just, equitable compromise; and cooperation by decentralized behavior. This tri-modal methodology is applied successively to the exchange of private goods, the fair division of unproduced commodities, the cooperative production of private and public goods, and cost-sharing.
Physical Description:ix, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-450) and index.
ISBN:0691034818
9780691034812
0521424585
9780521424585
0132276798
9780132276795