University of Groningen - Understanding Human Behaviour: Introduction to Game Theory and Shared Resources
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Understanding Human Behaviour: Introduction to Game Theory and Shared Resources at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Understanding Human Behaviour: Introduction to Game Theory and Shared Resources at FutureLearn Highlights
- Duration 4 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
- 100% online Learn at your own pace
Understanding Human Behaviour: Introduction to Game Theory and Shared Resources at FutureLearn Course details
- This four-week course will help you explore why sharing goods or tasks is difficult
- You'll enrich your understanding of the problems people have when they share and cooperate, and examine essential models that can support you in your future career in social sciences and beyond
- You'll have a close-up look at situations when actions (that are rational from an individual point of view) lead to non-optimal social outcomes
- Investigating the mechanisms that underlie the common action and public goods problems, you'll gain an insight into the behavioural dynamics affecting the ecological crisis we currently face
- Explore some social solutions to tackle such problems and reflect on the importance of strengthening social ties, norms, social control, sanctions, and institutions
- Explore social computation and computational modelling as a useful methodology. With this knowledge, you'll systematically study the interactions between individual behaviour, group behaviour, and public goods
- Apply the basic concepts from game theory to explain some of the mechanisms behind the overuse of natural resources
Understanding Human Behaviour: Introduction to Game Theory and Shared Resources at FutureLearn Curriculum
Who will clean the kitchen? Typical problems with sharing and cooperating
Welcome to Common Problems with Common Goods!
From a dirty kitchen to individual rationality
What will happen if everybody follows their best choices?
Game Theory and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
What is socially rational and why is dirty kitchen a problem?
Dirty kitchen, shared resources and game theory
Wrap up fo Week 1
Bigger kitchen, free riders and the Tragedy of the Commons
A crowded kitchen is a dirty kitchen
Introducing free riders
Multi-person games
How will they all end up?
Tragedy of the commons
Wrap up of Week 2
Will fish stock survive? Investigating how communities use renewable goods.
Common resources
Fishing experiment
Experimenting with the fishing model
Externalities
Wrap up of Week 3
How do communities succeed in managing problems with sharing and cooperating?
Introducing norms and sanctions
How to preserve common resources and public goods?
Experimenting with policies
Preserving the fish stock
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