Background
Bicchieri, Cristina was born on October 26, 1950 in Milano, Italy. Daughter of Ettore and Vanna Bicchieri.
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This book explores how individual actions coordinate to produce unintended social consequences. In the past this phenomenon has been explained as the outcome of rational, self-interested individual behaviour. Professor Bicchieri shows that this is in no way a satisfying explanation. She discusses how much knowledge is needed by agents in order to coordinate successfully. If the answer is unbounded knowledge, then a whole variety of paradoxes arise. If the answer is very little knowledge, then there seems hardly any possibility of attaining coordination. The solution to coordination and cooperation is for agents to learn about each other. The author concludes that rationality must be supplemented by models of learning and by an evolutionary account of how social order (i.e. spontaneous coordinated behaviour) can persist.
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Bicchieri, Cristina was born on October 26, 1950 in Milano, Italy. Daughter of Ettore and Vanna Bicchieri.
Degree (honorary) in Philosophy, U. Milano, Italy, 1976; Master of Arts in Philosophy of Science, Cambridge U., England, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy of Science, Cambridge U., England, 1984.
Assistant professor, Columbia University Barnard College, New York City, 1984-1986; assistant professor, U. Notre Dame, Indiana, 1986-1989; associate professor, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, 1989-1995; professor, since 1996. Board editors Economics and Philisophy, 1990-1995.
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Married Michael Woodford, September 14, 1984 (divorced May 1, 1992). Married Massimo Bigliardo, June 6, 1992.