Intergenerational Political Economy (A Game Theoretic Model of How to Glue the Generations Together),

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show that if reasonable care is taken in well-defining the types of games of strategy which arise naturally from considerations of the multigenerational aspects of any economy; then many different plausible explanations of intergenerational links will all be consistent with a stationary economy with intergenerational transfers of wealth. Which of the models (or blends of the models) is the best appears to be more of an empirical rather than theoretical question.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 29, 1980
Accession Number
ADA089595

Entities

People

  • Martin Shubik

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Corporations
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economic Models
  • Economic Systems
  • Economics
  • Equations
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Labor
  • Matrix Games
  • Money
  • Political Science
  • Production
  • Recreation
  • Societies
  • Taxes

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Game Theory.
  • Theoretical Analysis.