The Emergence of Norms Erin Kaye White Teeth is a funny

White Teeth is a funny

Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s

unified Germany was the most powerful state in Europe

the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home

but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family

The Emergence of Norms Erin Kaye White Teeth is a funnyThis book provides an account of the emergence of norms. Put very crudely, the main thesis of this book is that certain types of norms are possible solutions to problems posed by certain types of social interaction situations. The problems are such that they inhere in the structure (in the game theoretical sense of structure) of the situations concerned. Three types of paradigmatic situations are dealt with. They are referred to as Prisoners' Dilemma