Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory, Michael Bacharach; edited and with an introduction and a conclusion by Natalie Gold and Robert Sugden

摘要

The economist and game theoretician Michael Bacharach died in 2002 before completing the present book. The book was to consist of nine chapters but Bacharach had only written four of them and drafted some materials for the rest of the book at the time of his death. The editors have written a preface to the book, a long introductory chapter, and a concluding chapter. They give a sketch of much of the material that was to be included in the unwritten chapters. They have also improved on the text of the written four chapters and used brackets to indicate their inserts. On the whole, the editors have done an excellent job in putting together Bacharach's materials. The end result is a theory of team game theory. While the book still is a torso, it does create a systematic approach purporting to show the weaknesses of classical game theory and to argue that team reasoning is needed as a remedy. The level of treatment in Bacharach's own text is not very technical and, indeed, the book is meant for a wider audience beyond game theoreticians and economists.