Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2022 May 23;377(1851):20210135. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0135. Epub 2022 Apr 4.
Microeconomic modelling offers a powerful formal toolbox for analysing the complexities of real-world intergroup relations and conflicts. One important class of models scrutinizes individuals' valuations of different group memberships, attitudes towards members of different groups and preferences for resource distribution in group contexts. A second broad class uses game theoretical methods to study strategic interactions within and between groups of individuals in contest and in conflict. After a concise discussion of some essential peculiarities of microeconomic modelling, this review provides an overview of the pertinent literatures in economics, highlights instructive examples of central model types and points out several ways forward. This article is part of the theme issue 'Intergroup conflict across taxa'.
微观经济建模为分析现实世界中群体间关系和冲突的复杂性提供了一个强大的形式工具包。一类重要的模型研究了个体对不同群体成员身份的评价、对不同群体成员的态度以及在群体环境中对资源分配的偏好。第二类广泛的模型使用博弈论方法来研究个体在竞争和冲突中的群体内部和群体之间的策略互动。在简要讨论微观经济建模的一些基本特点之后,本文综述了经济学中相关文献,突出了中心模型类型的一些有启发性的例子,并指出了几个前进的方向。本文是主题为“跨物种种群的群体冲突”的一部分。