ENGLISH

The Possibility of Cooperation (Studies in Rationality and Social Change)

By Michael Taylor

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1987
ISBN
0521339901, 9780521339902
LCC
HX833 .T38 1987
Open Library ID
OL2736518M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14174580 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
103\103
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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