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    Stable institutions with relatively transparent rules are key conditions that help people more closely resemble straightforward economic agents, such that classical game theory finds reliable application to them as entire units

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    • 1.The internal politics of the brain consists in logrolling — coalitional bargaining among internal interest subunits
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    • 2.These internal dynamics are partly regulated and stabilized by the wider social games in which coalitions are embedded
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    • 3.Social expectations about a person's role set behavioral equilibrium targets for the logrolling processes in that person's brain
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    • 1.Institutions are themselves products of strategic interaction and thus cannot serve as exogenous stabilizers of the very behavior they presuppose—Douglass North's institutional economics shows rules emerge from and are sustained by ongoing bargaining.
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    • 2.Transparent rules systematically disadvantage actors with fewer interpretive resources, producing strategic opacity for marginalized agents even within nominally stable institutions—Iris Marion Young's work on structural injustice demonstrates this asymmetry.
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    • 1.Behavioral economists like Kahneman and Thaler show that institutional framing systematically triggers loss-aversion and status quo bias, distorting rather than approximating rational agency.
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    • 2.These distortions are not noise reducible by institutional design but are constitutive features of human cognition, making 'closer resemblance' to economic agents under stable rules an empirically false prediction.
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    Key Terms

    Classical game theory(as a framework for analyzing strategic behavior)
    A mathematical tool for predicting what people will do when they're in situations where their choices affect each other—it assumes people act rationally to maximize their own advantage.
    Reliable application(as the goal when using game theory to study institutions)
    When a theory or tool works consistently and accurately in real situations, producing predictable results you can depend on.
    Stable institutions(as a precondition for predictable behavior)
    Organizations or systems (like governments, markets, or courts) that operate consistently over time without sudden, unpredictable changes.
    Transparent rules(as a feature that makes institutions predictable)
    Clear, publicly known guidelines that everyone can see and understand, so there are no hidden requirements or surprise changes.
    economic agents(Used to distinguish idealized rational actors in economic models from real biological or human individuals.)
    The maximizing units identified by economic theory, characterized by unchanging preference fields.

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    This phenomenon complicates applications of classical game theory to intelligent animals. However, it clearly doesn’t vitiate it altogether, since people (and other animals) often don’t reverse their preferences. (If this weren’t true, the successful auction models and other s-called ‘mechanism designs’ would be mysterious.) Interestingly, the leading theories that aim to explain why hyperbolic discounters might often behave in accordance with RPT themselves appeal to game theoretic principles.
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