Advice, social learning, and the evolution of conventions

Author(s)

• Schotter, A.

Bibliographic Information

Advice, social learning, and the evolution of conventions

Andrew Schotter

Cambridge University Press, 2023

• : pbk

Other Title

Advice, social learning and the evolution of conventions

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

As societies progress, old generations of social agents die and are replaced by new ones. This book explores what happens in this transition as the old guard instructs the new arrivals about the wisdom of their ways. Do new entrants listen and follow the advice of their elders or dismiss it? Is intergenerational advice welfare improving or can it be destructive? Does such advice enhance the stability of social conventions or disrupt it? Using the concept of an Intergenerational Game and the tools of game theory and experimental economics, this study delves into the process of social leaning created by intergenerational advice passed from generation to generation. This book presents a unique theoretical and empirical study of the dynamics of social conventions not offered elsewhere.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Background: 2. Advice
• 3. Conventions, social learning, and Intergenerational games
• Part II. Coordination, Distribution, and Trust Conventions: 4. On the evolution of co-ordination and inequality preserving conventions- -the battle of the sexes revisited
• 5. Conventional behavior and bargaining - - advice and behavior in intergenerational
• 6. Trust and trustworthiness
• Part III. The Impact of Public Advice and Common Knowledge: 7. The impact of private and public advice in the minimum effort game
• 8. Advice and common knowledge in the 2/3rd's guessing game: does advice increase strategic sophistication
• Part IV. The Value of Advice: 9. Learning with the advice of a meddlesome boss
• 10. Advice and social learning
• 11. The market for advice
• Part V. Advice and Economic Mechanisms: 12. Chatting and matching
• 13. School matching and learning under the influence of intergenerational advice
• 14. Conclusions.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BD01264386
• ISBN:
  • 9781009048880
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 412 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 303.32
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Socialization
  • LCSH : Social learning
  • LCSH : Intergenerational communication
  • LCSH : Intergenerational relations
  • LCSH : Game theory
  • LCSH : Experimental economics