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Chapter 2. Assumptions, Rationality, and Context Explore “Methodological
Individualism”—the entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that
contains an in-depth discussion of the history of the philosophy of
methodological individualism underlying the micro-approach. Autobiography
of John Nash, Nobel laureate and creator of the “Nash Equilibrium” concept
of game theory (from the Nobel Prize official website). Autobiography
of Kenneth Arrow, Nobel laureate in Economics (from the Nobel Prize official
website). Theory
of Cooperation website, from Robert Axelrod’s “The Evolution of Cooperation,”
which gives a more refined understanding of game theory, the prisoner’s
dilemma, and the problems of cooperation and how cooperation can spontaneously
emerge in an anarchic system.
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