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Collective Action and Exchange A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy 1st Edition

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Full Title

Collective Action and Exchange A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy 1st Edition

Author(s)

William D. Ferguson

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780804785563, 9780804770040, 9780804770033

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing that collective-action problems lie at the foundation of market success, market failure, economic development, and the motivations for policy. Ferguson draws on information economics, social preference theory, cognition theory, institutional economics, as well as political and policy theory to develop this approach. The text uses classical, evolutionary, and epistemic game theory, along with basic social network analysis, as modeling frameworks. These models effectively bind the ideas presented, generating a coherent theoretic approach to political economy that stresses sometimes overlooked implications.