ABSTRACT
What is the relevant unit for social scientific analysis? On occasion in mainstream game theory we find that an individual human being is our unit for analysis. On other occasions game theorists focus on the firm or, in the case of a monopolist bargaining over conditions with a union closed-shop, we have bilateral monopolists. In other words, game theory need not entail that the individual asocial agent is our unit for analysis – there can be a number of levels at which social scientific investigation can be conducted.
