TY - JOUR
T1 - Conventions, social prejudices and discrimination
T2 - A festival game with merrymakers
AU - Kaneko, Mamoru
AU - Kimura, Toshiyuki
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - This paper provides a simple game-theoretic account of racial discrimination without assuming individual prejudices as a basic concept. We consider a recurrent situation of a festival game with merrymakers, and give a formulation of a stable convention. We show that stable conventions of one type involve discrimination against one group of players. We look closely into the structure of these stable conventions and consider them in comparison with recent developments of sociological thought on ethnic relations. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers 026, 900 and American Mathematical Society Classification Numbers 90D10, 90D80, 90D99.
AB - This paper provides a simple game-theoretic account of racial discrimination without assuming individual prejudices as a basic concept. We consider a recurrent situation of a festival game with merrymakers, and give a formulation of a stable convention. We show that stable conventions of one type involve discrimination against one group of players. We look closely into the structure of these stable conventions and consider them in comparison with recent developments of sociological thought on ethnic relations. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers 026, 900 and American Mathematical Society Classification Numbers 90D10, 90D80, 90D99.
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U2 - 10.1016/0899-8256(92)90034-P
DO - 10.1016/0899-8256(92)90034-P
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249009656
SN - 0899-8256
VL - 4
SP - 511
EP - 527
JO - Games and Economic Behavior
JF - Games and Economic Behavior
IS - 4
ER -