To Mine or Not to Mine?: Using Game Theory to Explain the Decision-Making Process in Asteroid Mining Investigations

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Author(s): Jesus Pedro Zamora Bonilla (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain)and Simone Centuori (Deimos Space S.L.U., Spain)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 23
Source title: Handbook of Research on Industrial Advancement in Scientific Knowledge
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vicente González-Prida Diaz (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain & Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain)and Jesus Pedro Zamora Bonilla (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7152-0.ch012

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Social studies of science have flourished within the last decades, making use of numerous intellectual tools from a high variety of academic fields in the social sciences and the humanities (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, etc.). Game theory, however, has been one tool that has not been put to use too often, in spite of the obvious importance of strategic considerations in the negotiations between the relevant actors in research episodes. In this chapter, the authors illustrate the use of game-theoretical concepts and techniques with the analysis of a nascent research field: asteroid mining.

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