RUI: Explaining Group Behavior
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Dr. Weirich is refining a common method of explaining group                behavior that appeals to the course of action that a group would                agree upon if conditions were ideal for reaching an agreement.                  In particular, he is specifying the course of action that a group               would agree upon in ideal conditions.  Dr. Weirich's approach, in               contrast to other game theorists looking at this question, is                   what he calls weighted utilitarianism which uses more properties                of a group than standard proposals use to determine the action                  that the group would agree upon in ideal conditions.                            Specifically, it uses interpersonal utilities and power                         structures.  It is like utilitarianism except that it weighs                    utilities according to the social power of individuals before                   adding utilities.                                                                                                                                                    Dr. Weirich's earlier formulations of weighted                             utilitarianism imposed a restriction to bargaining problems in                  which there are no incentives for the formation of factions or                  coalitions that would splinter the group of bargainers.  He has                 now removed this restriction.  For this purpose, he has                         introduced a new conception of a stable agreement.  According to                it, being a stable agreement is similar to being an agreement                   that is in what others have called the bargaining set.  He                      incorporates some refinements that come out of the recent                       literature on decision stability.                                                                                                                                    In accomplishing this work, this project puts one of the                   most fruitful methods of explaining group behavior on a sound                   foundation.
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