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Survival Game How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition

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ISBN-10: 0805076999

ISBN-13: 9780805076998

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: David P. Barash

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"An accessible, intriguing explanation of game theory . . . that can help explain much human behavior." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer Humans, like bacteria, woodchucks, chimpanzees, and other animals, compete or cooperate in order to get food, shelter, territory, and other resources to survive. But how do they decide whether to muscle out or team up with the competition? In The Survival Game, David P. Barash synthesizes the newest ideas from psychology, economics, and biology to explore and explain the roots of human strategy. Drawing on game theory-the study of how individuals make decisions-he explores the give-and-take of spouses in determining an evening's plans, the behavior of…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 9/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

David P. Barash holds a Ph.D. in zoology & is professor of psychology & zoology at the University of Washington. He has been especially active in the growth & development of sociobiology as a scientific discipline.

The Games We All Play: What They Are, Why They Matter
What's the Big Idea?
Sartre's Dictum
Isn't It All Too Machiavellian?
The Regrettable Reality of Conflict
What It'll Tell Us and What It Won't
Duels, Truels, and Rules
Mastering the Matrix
Coordination Games
Pascal's Wager
Simple Strategies
Follow the Leader?
Guessing Games
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea
Prisoner's Dilemma and the Problem of Cooperation
The Classic Formulation
A Few Examples
Forward Thinking and Backward Induction
Other Ways Out?
Axelrod's Tournament and Rapoport's TIT FOR TAT
The Live-and-Let-Live System During World War I
Reciprocity
Future Tripping
Prisoner's Dilemma as Rorschach Test
Zero-Sum Jealousy
Social Dilemmas: Personal Gain Versus Public Good
Some Examples
Social Dilemmas and the Social Contract
The Free-Rider Problem
The Tragedy of the Commons
Rousseau's Stag Hunt
A Bit of Psychology: Groups and Grouches
Some More Psychology: Lifeboats, Loners, and Losers
Games of Chicken
The Classic Case
Some Examples: Chickens, One to One
Madmen, Steering Wheels, and Other Ploys
Ultimatum Games
Social Chickens
War and Peace
The Conscious Chicken
Animal Antics
Snaggle-Mouths, Side-Blotches, and Stability
Sex
Social Dilemmas Among Natural Groups
Hawks and Doves
Bullies, Bourgeois, and Other Complications
Dads, Cads, Coys, and Sluts
Different Ways of Being a Male
Thoughts from the Underground
On Being Reasonable
On Being Unreasonable
Stubborn Unreasonableness
Predictable Unreasonableness
Understandable Unreasonableness
A Troublesome Fallacy
"Logical" Vicious Circles
Pas Trop de Zele
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index