About this title: How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? The author explores this central question, and its implications in this age of nuclear weapons and arms talks.
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1985-08
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1985
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1985
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1984-04-15
ISBN-13:9780465021222ISBN:0465021220
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1985-10-01
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1985-10-01
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140124958ISBN:0140124950
Description: New. How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists-whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals-when there is no central authority to police their actions? This title explores this question, and its implications in this age of nucle... read more
"The Evolution of Cooperation is an approachable read on game theory. Evolution was recommended by one of my economics professors in college; this book lays out the prisoner's dilemma, tit-for-tat, and other common games that have been useful tools when analyzing competitive behavior, negotiating tactics, and in investing."
"Seminal work demonstrating how cooperation and develop, thrive and protect itself within a society of egotists. This book gave birth to the field of quantiative ethics, pointing a way for separating morality from superstition."
Every so often a book comes along that is so groundbreaking it changes the popular worldview. This book, written in 1984 by Robert Axelrod, is just such a seminal work, an original analysis that changed the way experts view cooperation. Its ramifications apply to individuals, organizations, countries and even nonthinking - but nevertheless cooperative - biological life forms, such as bacteria. Axelrod based his book on the famous Prisoner's Dilemma, a classic game created in 1950 by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher of the Rand Corporation. Canadian mathematician Albert W. Tucker added the prison sentence payoffs and gave the game its colorful name. Players have two choices: cooperation or betrayal. Axelrod organized two repeating Prisoner's Dilemma tournaments played by computer programs devised by game theorists, scientists and other experts. His analysis of the tournaments' results confirmed that cooperation is always a better long-term strategy than betrayal and, thus, evolution has favored it. This book, based on that analysis, has become a true classic. getAbstract suggests that anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of cooperation should start by reading this pivotal, illuminating study."
"This is probably the first and only book I've read in grad school that was thoroughly enjoyable for me to read -- enjoyable for me while I was actually reading it and not only in retrospect. I usually have slog through most texts for the sake of knowledge and insights I hope to gain if I am able to make it through. As I read Axelrod's book, however, I gained pleasure and insight during the very act of reading. He tackles profoundly important ideas and implications while writing in a style accessible to anyone with a decent high school education."
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