This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focusing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoners' Dilemma supergame. It is a revised and expanded edition of the author's classic work of rational choice theory Anarchy and Cooperation, originally published with John Wiley in 1976. The analysis has been recast and developed here to make it more accessible to non-mathematical readers and to provide a more comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the theory of collective action. The book will be of interest to a range of readers in political and social philosophy and in economics.
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This 1987 book offers a critique of the liberal theory of the state, focussing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoners' Dilemma supergame.
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The most persuasive justification of the state is founded on the argument that, without it, people would not successfully cooperate in realizing their common interests and in particular would not provide themselves with certain public goods: goods, that is to say, which any member of the public may benefit from, whether or not he or she contributes in any way to their provision. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constituent game payoffs, sophisticated altruism, game onwards, player changes strategy, negative altruism, public goods interaction, positive altruism, supergame payoff, switching unilaterally, public goods provision problems, conditional cooperators, payoff scale, other collective action problems, constituent games, property rights economists, conditional cooperation, strategy vectors, succeeding game, transformed game, lumpy goods, coordination equilibrium, own payoff, pure egoist, preceding game, coordination equilibria Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The most persuasive justification of the state is founded on the argument that, without it, people would not successfully cooperate in realizing their common interests and in particular would not provide themselves with certain public goods: goods, that is to say, which any member of the public may benefit from, whether or not he or she contributes in any way to their provision. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constituent game payoffs, sophisticated altruism, game onwards, player changes strategy, negative altruism, public goods interaction, positive altruism, supergame payoff, switching unilaterally, public goods provision problems, conditional cooperators, payoff scale, other collective action problems, constituent games, property rights economists, conditional cooperation, strategy vectors, succeeding game, transformed game, lumpy goods, coordination equilibrium, own payoff, pure egoist, preceding game, coordination equilibria Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Game of Difference, Garrett Hardin, Russell Hardin, Hobbes's Leviathan, Games of Difference, N-person Chicken New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill on 4 pages
- Collective Action (Rff Press) by Russell Hardin on 4 pages
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin on 4 pages
- Principles of Political Economy (Great Minds Series) by John Stuart Mill on page 175, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Limits of State Action, The by Wilhelm von Humboldt on page 173, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Rules, Reasons, and Norms: Selected Essays by Philip Pettit on 8 pages
- The Limits of Rationality by Karen Schweers Cook on 6 pages
- Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy, Vol. 18, Pt. 1: Social Philosophy and Policy by Ellen Frankel Paul on 5 pages
- Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism (Oxford Political Theory) by Richard Dagger in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection (Contemporary Political Theory) by Michael Taylor in Front Matter, page 131, and page 180
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