Peter Vanderschraaf, Strategic Justice: Convention and Problems of Balancing Divergent Interests

For twenty years, Peter Vanderschraaf has been writing important papers about conventions. His new book, Strategic Justice, synthesises this body of work and displays his ability to write both as a scholarly philosopher and as a rigorous game theorist. As a preface to this review, I must declare an interest. I am the author of a book, The Economics of Rights, Cooperation and Welfare (1986), which deals with many of the same topics as Strategic Justice, drawing on the same classic sources. Van...