The Possibility of Cooperation - Michael Taylor (Anarchism, Game Theory)

The Math behind Anarchism.

Michael Taylor, an anarchist and game theory expert, irrefutably answers every possible criticism of anarchy's unworkability by proving mathematically how rationality and collective action are linked.

This book is a revised and expanded edition of the author's 'Anarchy and Cooperation', originally published with John Wiley. It offers a high-level critique of the liberal theory of the state, focusing on a detailed study of cooperation in the absence of the state and of other kinds of coercion. The discussion includes an analysis of collective action and of the Prisoner's Dilemma supergame. It will be of interest to a range of readers in political and social philosophy and in economics.

Cambridge, 1987

This extended edition has less math and is open to a wider audience than his previous work Community, Anarchy and Liberty.