This paper distinguishes four types of 'Prisoners' Dilemma games - provision, the commons, selfishness, and altruism - based on the public character of benefits and costs. Although each of these four games has the same 2 x 2 ordinal game form, each differs in terms of strategic, dynamic, and...

This paper extends the analysis of deterrence to examine terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and rogue nations. Such situations are characterized by differential pre-emptive and response capacity, in contrast to the traditional deterrence literature on nuclear superpowers, where such factors are...

"This article examines the conditions under which the principal-agent model is self-activating/socially causal. We do so by exploring a principal-agent framework that allows for the possibility that rational agents may hold intrinsic preferences for autonomy in decision making and experience...

This chapter surveys the past applications of game theory to the study of terrorism. By capturing the strategic interplay between terrorists and targeted governments, game theory is an appropriate methodology for investigating terrorism and counterterrorism. Game theory has been used to examine...

The Trust Game is regarded as an important model of corporate culture in that social learning to promote trust creates organizational efficiencies consistent with the existence of firms. We examine the Trust Game from an evolutionary perspective in which player types are defined in terms of...

This study explores a nested representation of ethical, moral, social identity, motivated, opportunistic and reciprocal agent preferences to characterize screening contracts in a principal–agent model under adverse selection. This leads to a ranking of the type of social preferences that...