A Reading of Inequality through Coordination Games
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inequality, gender, coordination games, social institutions, rules in equilibriumAbstract
This essay addresses some of the topics covered in the work The origins of unfairness: social categories and cultural evolution, published by Cailin O'Connor in 2019. Mainly, I expose the perspective of coordination games to model interactions between people subject to social categorization—such as gender or race. O'Connor's goal is to demonstrate how social categorization, while helping to solve coordination problems more optimally, leads to equilibria with unequal rewards between groups. The final part of the review explores some classic interactions between men and women, first through the models presented by the author and later extending the vision of coordination games to other situations. This is intended to disseminate both a vision of certain inequalities linked to gender as a product of a set of rules in equilibrium, as well as the advantages of modelling in social analysis.
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