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The stag hunt and the evolution of social structure /
"This book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts hunting hare, where the risk of noncooperation is small but the reward is equally small, with hunting the stag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts hunting hare, where the risk of noncooperation is small but the reward is equally small, with hunting the stag, where maximum cooperation is required but the reward is much greater. Rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit." "The possibility of a successful solution depends on the coevolution of cooperation and social structure. Brian Skyrms focuses on three factors that affect the emergence of such structure and the facilitation of collective action: location (interactions with neighbors), signals (transmission of information), and association (the formation of social networks)."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 149 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-145) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511187440 9780511187445 0521533929 9780521533928 0521826519 9780521826518 0511184794 9780511184796 0511185626 9780511185625 9781139165228 1139165224 9780511186516 0511186517 9786610449293 6610449295 1107146909 9781107146907 1107385857 9781107385856 1280449292 9781280449291 0511313551 9780511313554 |