TY - BOOK ID - 136566922 TI - The Bounds of Reason : Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences PY - 2009 SN - 128225913X 9786612259135 1400830362 PB - Princeton : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Game theory. KW - Human behavior. KW - Practical reason. KW - Psychology. KW - Social sciences --Methodology. KW - Game theory KW - Practical reason KW - Human behavior KW - Social sciences KW - Psychology KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136566922 AB - Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences--from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without game theory is a handicapped enterprise. Gintis illustrates, for instance, that game theor ER -