Changing the world by changing the game

Tore Ellingsen holds the Ragnar Söderberg Professorship of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics. He's also an adjunct professor at NHH. 

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In his book, Institutional and Organizational Economics: A Behavioral Game Theory Introduction, Tore equips readers to answer essential questions around the success and failure of humans in groups, drawing on behavioral game theory, psychology, and sociology. He emphasizes how other-regarding preferences such as altruism and dutifulness matter for societies’ prosperity, and analyzes the role of culture in the form of shared values and understandings. One lesson is that cooperation is facilitated when people anticipate that they will hold common memories of past behavior, especially if agreements take precedence over leaders’ authority.

A groundbreaking text, Institutional and Organizational Economics is essential reading for students and scholars of economics, political science, sociology, and public administration.

programme 

13:00 - 14:30 Tore will present his new book Institutional and Organizational Economics: A Behavioral Game Theory Introduction.

14:30 - 15:00 Book Signing.