Bargaining Theory

ISBN-13: 9781108706681 / Angielski

Peter Vanderschraaf

Opis

This Element reviews the parts of bargaining theory most important in philosophical applications and to social contract theory, discusses rational choice analyses of bargaining problems that focus on axiomatic analysis, the conventionalist analyses of bargaining problems, and how philosophers use bargaining theory to analyze the social contract.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Motivating problems; 3. Defining the problem; 4. Solution concepts; 5. Rational choice justifications of solutions; 6. Bargaining conventions; 7. The Nash bargaining problem as a tool for analyzing the social contract; Appendix. Braithwaite ranking; Bibliography.