Abstract
Robert Aumann has played an essential and indispensable role in shaping game theory and much of economic theory. He promotes a unified view of the very wide domain of rational behaviour, a domain that encompasses areas of many apparently disparate disciplines, like economics, political science, biology, psychology, mathematics, philosophy, computer science, law and statistics. His contributions have had a most profound impact on the social sciences
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- Aumann, R. J
- Bounded rationality,
- Coalitions
- Common knowledge
- Continuum of traders
- Contract curve
- Convexity
- Core
- Core equivalence
- Correlated equilibrium
- Folk theorem
- Game theory
- Non-transferable utility
- Perfect competition
- Rational behaviour
- Repeated games with incomplete information
- Shapley value
- Strong equilibrium
- Supergames
- Transferable utility
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Neyman, A. (2018). Aumann, Robert J. (Born 1930). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2750
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