A Critical Argument of Mahatma Gandhi's Trusteeship Using Game Theory Analysis

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi's moral concept of Trusteeship has been criticized for its implementation, vagueness, application, and too much emphasis on the role of the wealthy people. The paper discusses Gandhi's idea of Trusteeship and attempts to present a critical argument using a game theoretic framework. The results of this paper show that Gandhi's Trusteeship idea can only be implemented when every trustee strictly follows altruistic behaviour no matter what other trustees are doing;however, this is a very strict assumption. When trustees are unaware of the behaviour of the other trustees, cooperation to contribute to society is possible only when every trustee starts giving more weight to the other trustees' altruistic behaviour.