How Can Cooperative Game Theory Be Made More Relevant to Economics? : An Open Problem

Maskin, Eric

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Game Theory pioneers J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern gave most of their attention to the cooperative side of the subject. But cooperative game theory has had relatively little effect on economics. In this essay, I suggest why that might be and what is needed for cooperative theory to become more relevant to economics.

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I acknowledge research support from the Rilin Fund at Harvard University.

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Department of Economics, Harvard University, Littauer Center, Room 312, 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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Department of Mathematics, Senior Research Mathematician, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Maskin, E. (2016). How Can Cooperative Game Theory Be Made More Relevant to Economics? : An Open Problem. In: Nash, Jr., J., Rassias, M. (eds) Open Problems in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32162-2_9

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