The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure¶
Skyrms. (2003). The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure. Cambridge University Press.
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- Assurance Game
- The assurance game — Rousseau's stag-hunt, formalized in two-by-two matrix form — is a strategic situation in which each player strictly prefers to cooperate if and only if the others will also cooperate, producing two pure-strategy Nash equilibria: a payoff-dominant equilibrium (all cooperate, all receive the high joint payoff) and a risk-dominant equilibrium (all defect, all receive the modest safe payoff)
This sourceBook description presenting the stag hunt as Rousseau's parable from A Discourse on Inequality, in which rational agents are pulled toward the hare by risk and toward the stag by mutual benefit. Book described as a study of cooperation and collective action and categorized with Social Theory, Sociology and Political Philosophy, whose point of departure is Rousseau's stag-hunt story.
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“Rousseau contrasts the pay-off of hunting hare where the risk of non-cooperation is small but the reward is equally small, against the pay-off of hunting the stag where maximum cooperation is required but where the reward is so much greater.”
- The assurance game — Rousseau's stag-hunt, formalized in two-by-two matrix form — is a strategic situation in which each player strictly prefers to cooperate if and only if the others will also cooperate, producing two pure-strategy Nash equilibria: a payoff-dominant equilibrium (all cooperate, all receive the high joint payoff) and a risk-dominant equilibrium (all defect, all receive the modest safe payoff)
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