Rational Interaction: Essays in Honor of John C. Harsanyi

ISBN-13: 9783642081361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 438 str.

Reinhard Selten

Opis

This book is a collection of essays in honor of John C. Harsanyi. Originally, we hoped that it would be ready in the year of his 70th birthday, but we did not quite succeed. It sometimes takes longer than anticipated to do things as well as one wants. I think that John Harsanyi will understand this. It is my desire to express our thanks to all those who helped to make the book possible, especially to the publishing house, the Springer Verlag. I am grateful to Hildegard Grober who assisted us in the organizational tasks connected to our editorial effort. I am deeply indebted to Horace W. Brock. His active support was extremely valuable. The results of my editorial efforts should partly be attributed to him. Reinhard Selten Table of Contents Introduction 1 I. Coopera. tive Game Theory The Consistent Shapley Value for Games without Side Payments by Michael Maschler and Guillermo Owen 5 Fictitious-Transfer Solutions in Cooperative Game Theory by Roger B. Myerson 13 The Finagle Point for Characteristic Function Games by Guillermo Owen 35 Voting by Count and Account by Bezalel Peleg 45 Fee Games: (N)TU-Games with Incomplete Information by Joachim Rosenmftller 53 A Non-Cooperative Interpretation of Value and Potential 83 by Sergiu Hart and Andreu Mas-Colell II.

Spis treści

I. Cooperative Game Theory.- The Consistent Shapley Value for Games without Side Payments.- Fictitious-Transfer Solutions in Cooperative Game Theory.- The Finagle Point for Characteristic Function Games.- Voting Count and Account.- Fee Games: (N)TU-Games with Incomplete Information.- A Non-Cooperative Interpretation of Value and Potential.- II. Mechanism Design.- Types Decomposition and Perfect Implementations.- Fair Division under Asymmetric Information.- Non-Transferable Utility and Bayesian Incentives.- III. Basic Questions of Non-Cooperative Game Theory.- Equilibrium Selection Unilateral Deviation Stability.- Determinacy and Rational Choice.- Inductive Reasoning in Repeated Games.- IV. Game Models.- Price-Quantity Oligopoly with Adjustment Costs.- A Demand Commitment Model of Coalition Bargaining.- The Reconciliation of Micro and Macro Economics.- V. Utilitarianism and Related Topics.- Harsanyi’s Utilitarian Theorem: A Simpler Proof and Some Ethical Connotations.- Evolution and Convention: Social Contract IV.- Sex Differentiation in Annuities: Reflections on Utilitarianism and Inequality.- Utilitarianism, the Difference Principle, and the Veil of Ignorance: An Application of the Theory of Social Situations.- Bernoulli, Harsanyi, and the Principle of Temporal Good.- VI. Reflections.- Economics and Thermodynamics: von Neumann’s Problematic Conjecture.- Game Theory, Symmetry, and Scientific Discovery.- John C. Harsanyi, System Builder and Conceptual Innovator.- List of Publications of John C. Harsanyi.

O autorze

Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Selten was born in Breslau at October 5, 1930. Reinhard Selten finished highschool in 1950 at Melsungen and then began to study mathematics at Frankfurt a. M.. Reinhard Selten received his Ph. D. in 1961 at Frankfurt a. M. His Ph. D. thesis was on valuation of n-person games. Reinhard Selten spent one academic year in 1967-1968 at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Visiting Full Professor. Since 1969 until 1996 Reinhard Selten taught economic theory first at the Free University of Berlin, then at the University of Bielefeld and finally at the University of Bonn. Together with John Harsanyi and John F. Nash Reinhard Selten received in 1994 the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize. The price was awarded for foundational work in gamee theory. During his stay at Bonn he founded the first computerized laboratory in Europe. He received 11 honorary doctorates from universities in Germany, France, Great Britain, the United States and China. In 2005 he became the leader of the workinggroup "Rationality in the Light of Experimental Economics" of the Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Sciences and Arts at the University of Bonn. He resigned from this position in September 2014 and finished working for this group at Oktober 2014. Since then he works in his home. He was married with his first wife from 1959 until her death at March 2014. He married again in September 2014.