1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784445303321

Autore

Skyrms Brian

Titolo

The stag hunt and the evolution of social structure / / Brian Skyrms [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14690-9

1-107-38585-7

1-280-44929-2

1-139-16522-4

0-511-18562-6

0-511-18479-4

0-511-18744-0

0-511-31355-1

0-511-18651-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 149 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Social structure

Social action

Collective behavior

Social evolution

Social networks

Cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-145) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; l THE STAG HUNT; PART I LOCATION; PART II SIGNALS; PART III ASSOCIATION; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel.  The book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action.  The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. 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. Thus, rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit. Written with Skyrms's characteristic clarity and verve, this intriguing book will be eagerly sought out by students and professionals in philosophy, political science, economics, sociology and evolutionary biology.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996205590903316

Titolo

Critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Forum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Current Science Ltd., 1997-

ISSN

1466-609X

Soggetti

Critical care medicine

Critical Care

Periodical

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published: [London] : BioMed Central, 2001-



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910376507703321

Autore

Raicu Ioan

Titolo

ScienceCloud'11 : proceedings of the second International Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing : June 8, 2011, San Jose, California, USA

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : ACM, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (68 pages)

Collana

ACM Conferences

Soggetti

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph