Wed Feb 8 08:52:17 EST 2006
Robert Leonard wrote:
>Re. Kevin Quinn's point about individualism and norms, it's worth mentioning
>that social norms (independent of individual rationality) were central to
>von Neumann's game theory. They were what helped distinguish various
>equilibria in his stable set solution. The "social" played a greater role
>in von N's game theory than I think most people realize.
Point well taken. There is a very interesting passage in Schelling where,
commenting on a coordination game, he says (I paraphrase) : here *we* have
reason to create a tradtion - to eliminate the indeterminacy.
Kevin Quinn