The Rationality of Fair Division as an Equilibrium Outcome in the Ultimatum Game

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Penn Journal of Philosophy, Politics & Economics
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Fairness
ultimatum game
rationality
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Buley, Taylor W
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Economic man is self-interested and rational. But in practice, humans often act irrationally and sacrifice their own self-interest for the benefit or detriment of another’s outcome. Rooted in the same fundamental economic principles, is formal game theory, then, a wash? This paper sets out to bring together evidence from recent discussion in behavioral and evolutionary game theory in an attempt to rationalize fair division as a short run equilibrium strategy played by self-interested and rational human beings in the ultimatum game.

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2017-11-10
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