Drawing upon and extending his inaugural Lipsey Lectures, Debraj Ray looks at coalition formation from the perspective of game theory. Ray brings together devel

First published in 1984. In this book, the authors set forth the central ideas and results of the major theories of coalition forming behavior. These theories a

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