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Staff Report 57
Back to PublicationA Generalized Equilibrium Solution for Game Theory
John Bryant
Revised August 1, 1981
Abstract
Iterated contraction by dominance produces a generalized equilibrium. This solution to game theory is motivated, generated, analyzed, and compared to Nash equilibrium. One implication drawn is that a realized event in a social situation need not be uniquely determined by simple individual choices, even though the preference orderings implying those choices are the appropriate primitive.
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