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Simulating a N-person Multi-stage Game for Making a State

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This paper describes how a state emerges and collapses that makes it possible for citizens to do something which they will not do voluntarily. The model is a generalisation of the multi-stage game of Okada and Sakakibara (1991). The general model, its mathematical analysis with condition for simplicity and simulations for more general cases are presented. The results of simulations suggest that selfish but rational people may agree to make a state, which grows as the public capital stock accumulates but collapses when the stock reaches a certain level.

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  1. Okada, A. and Sakakibara, K.: The emergence of the state: A game theoretic approach to the theory of social contract, Economic Studies Quarterly, vol.42,no.4 (1991)

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

    Atsushi Iwasaki

  2. Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8047, Japan

    Sobei H. Oda

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

    Kanji Ueda

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  1. Atsushi Iwasaki
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  1. School of Computer Science, University College, UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2600

    Bob McKay , Xin Yao  & Charles S. Newton ,  & 

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1, Kusung-dong, Yusung-gu, Taejon-shi, 305-701, Korea

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  3. Department of Information Electronics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

    Takeshi Furuhashi

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Iwasaki, A., Oda, S.H., Ueda, K. (1999). Simulating a N-person Multi-stage Game for Making a State. In: McKay, B., Yao, X., Newton, C.S., Kim, JH., Furuhashi, T. (eds) Simulated Evolution and Learning. SEAL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1585. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48873-1_40

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