Paper:
A New (Simplified) Derivation of Nash’s Bargaining Solution
Hoang Phuong Nguyen*,, Laxman Bokati**, and Vladik Kreinovich**,***
*Division Informatics, Math-Informatics Faculty, Thang Long University
Nghiem Xuan Yem Road, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi, Vietnam
**Computational Science Program, University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA
***Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA
Corresponding author
According to the Nobelist John Nash, if a group of people wants to selects one of the alternatives in which all of them get a better deal than in a status quo situations, then they should select the alternative that maximizes the product of their utilities. In this paper, we provide a new (simplified) derivation of this result, a derivation which is not only simpler – it also does not require that the preference relation between different alternatives be linear.
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