Essays on Ethics, Social Behaviour, and Scientific Explanation
When John Harsanyi came to Stanford University as a candidate for the Ph.D., I asked him why he was bothering, since it was most un likely that he had anything to learn from us. He was already a known scho lar; in addition to some papers in economics, the first two papers in this vol ume had alre...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1976, 1976
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1976 |
| Series: | Theory and Decision Library
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- A / Ethics and Welfare Economics
- I. Cardinal Utility in Welfare Economics and in the Theory of Risk-Taking
- II. Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility
- III. Ethics in Terms of Hypothetical Imperatives
- IV. Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory
- V. Nonlinear Social Welfare Functions: Do Welfare Economists Have a Special Exemption from Bayesian Rationality?
- B / Rational-Choice and Game Theoretical Models of Social Behavior
- VI. Advances in Understanding Rational Behavior
- VII. Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs. Functionalist and Conformist Theories
- VIII. Game Theory and the Analysis of International Conflicts
- IX. Measurement of Social Power, Opportunity Costs, and the Theory of Two-Person Bargaining Games
- X. Measurement of Social Power in n-Person Reciprocal Power Situations
- XI. A Bargaining Model for Social Status in Informal Groups and Formal Organizations
- C / Scientific Explanation
- XII. Explanation and Comparative Dynamics in Social Science
- XIII. Popper’s Improbability Criterion for the Choice of Scientific Hypotheses