Game Theory

Should you watch public television without pledging...Exceed the posted speed limit...Hop a subway turnstile without paying These questions illustrate the socalled "prisoner's dilemma", a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications make the prisoner's dilemma one of the great unifyin...

?I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.??Steven LevittGame theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It?s the art of anticipating your opponent?s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve sim...

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...

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...