Game Theory

The Evolution of Cooperation provides valuable insights into the ageold question of whether unforced cooperation is ever possible. Widely praised and muchdiscussed, this classic book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of selfseeking egoists?whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals?when there is no central authority to police t...

Why did countries engage in a nuclear arms race How do we make decisions when we don?t have all the information What makes international environmental cooperation possibleGame theory is the study of how we make a decision when the outcome of our moves depends on the decisions of someone else. But it?s not just about predicting your opponent?s ne...

This book is a selection of the best articles from Game Theory Tuesdays, a column from the blog Mind Your Decisions. Articles from Game Theory Tuesdays have been referenced in The Freakonomics Blog , Yahoo Finance , and CNN.com .Game theory is the study of interactive decision makingthat is, in situations where each person's action affects the ou...

Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook is a nononsense, gamescentered introduction to strategic form (matrix) and extensive form (game tree) games. From the first lesson to the last, this textbook introduces games of increasing complexity and then teaches the game theoretical tools necessary to solve them. Quick, efficient, and to the point, Game...

"A lucid and penetrating development of game theory that will appeal to the intuition . . . a most valuable contribution." ? Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, BachThe foundations of game theory were laid by John von Neumann, who in 1928 proved the basic minimax theorem, and with the 1944 publication of the Theory of Games and Economic...

This is the classic work upon which modernday game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived...

The definitive introduction to game theoryThis comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, in a style that combines rigor with accessibility. Steven Tadelis begins with a concise description of rational decision making, and goes on to discuss strategic and extensive form games with complete info...