Where and how does the brain code reward during social behavior? Almost all elements of
the brain's reward circuit are modulated during social behavior. The striatum in particular is …

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how
emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people …

A common observation in experiments involving finite repetition of the prisoners' dilemma is
that players do not always play the single-period dominant strategies (“finking”), but instead …

International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries
lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in …

How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule
of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business …

In a multi-agent environment, where the outcomes of one's actions change dynamically
because they are related to the behavior of other beings, it becomes difficult to make an …

Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines
the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic …

A failing government trying to prevent the imminent capture of its capital, a regional power
planning for war, a ragtag militia looking to reverse its battlefield losses, a peacekee** …

Abstract Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a significant social phenomenon for
the distribution of information goods and may become an important alternative to traditional …

This textbook looks at decisions–how we make them, and what makes them good or bad. In
this bestselling introduction, Erik Angner clearly lays out the theory of behavioral economics …