The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
Herbert Gintis
Abstract
Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as this book demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. The book shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without game theory is a hindered enterprise. The book is a combination of a text book on game theory and a plea to use behavioral gam ... More
Keywords: game theory, human behavior, behavioral science, social theory
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780691160849 |
| Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: October 2017 | DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691160849.001.0001 |
