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'''Cooperative game theory''' studies situations where players can form binding agreements and coalitions, in contrast to [[Game theory|non-cooperative game theory]] where individual strategy choice is paramount. The field was initiated by [[John von Neumann]] and [[Oskar Morgenstern]] in their 1944 treatise, who introduced the characteristic function as a way to represent what each coalition of players can guarantee itself regardless of what outsiders do.

The central problem of cooperative game theory is not strategic reasoning but distributive justice: given that a coalition can achieve some collective payoff, how should that payoff be divided among members? The von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set was the first solution concept, but it was eventually supplemented and displaced by the [[Nash Equilibrium|Nash bargaining solution]] and, more durably, by the [[Shapley Value|Shapley value]] — which assigns to each player their marginal contribution averaged over all possible coalition-formation orders. The field remains essential to [[Mechanism Design|mechanism design]], [[Political Science|political coalition theory]], and cost allocation problems.

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[[Category:Economics]]
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