Information structure and logical design of social rules

Abstract

Apart from purely theoretical approaches(mainly in microeconomics), there seem to be not a lot of studies which employ computational environment to examine/explain sociological/ethical process of building informal institution in a society, or statement like people should behave moralistic-ally. In this study I introduce an agent based model and then present an idea to examine/explain the sociological/ethical processes and statements using it. I make a trial to set a situation in which the agents can be defined to be moralistic, using the notion of games and information structure. Some meaningful results on the formalisation are shown. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.