Research Catalog

Title

Games, strategies, and decision making / Joseph E. Harrington, Jr., the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Author

Harrington, Joseph E., Jr., 1957-

Publication

New York : Worth Publishers, A Macmilan Education Company, ©2015.

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Description

xxiv, 638 pages, 63 unnumbered pages in various pagings : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

This book on game theory introduces and develops the key concepts with a minimum of mathematics. Students are presented with empirical evidence, anecdotes and strategic situations to help them apply theory and gain a genuine insight into human behaviour. The book provides a diverse collection of examples and scenarios from history, literature, sports, crime, theology, war, biology, and everyday life. These examples come with rich context that adds real-world meat to the skeleton of theory. Each chapter begins with a specific strategic situation and is followed with a systematic treatment that gradually builds understanding of the concept.

Subject

• Game theory > Decision making
• Decision making
• Games of strategy (Mathematics)
• Mathematics
• Economics, Mathematical
• Game theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Part 1. Constructing a Game: Chapter 1. Introduction to Strategic Reasoning -- Chapter 2. Building A Model of A Strategic Situation -- Part 2. Strategic Form Games: Chapter 3. Eliminating the Impossible: Solving A Game When Rationality is Common Knowledge -- Chapter 4. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete Games with Two Or Three Players -- Chapter 5. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete N-Player Games -- Chapter 6. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Continuous Games -- Chapter 7. Keep 'Em Guessing: Randomized Strategies -- Part 3. Extensive Form Games: Chapter 8. Taking Turns: Sequential Games with Perfect Information -- Chapter 9. Taking Turns in the Dark: Sequential Games with Imperfect Information -- Part 4. Games of Incomplete Information: Chapter 10. I Know Something You Don't Know: Games with Private Information -- Chapter 11. What You Do Tells Me Who You Are: Signaling Games -- Chapter 12. Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them: Cheap Talk Games -- Part 5. Repeated Games: Chapter 13. Playing Forever: Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players -- Chapter 14. Cooperation and Reputation: Applications of Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players -- Chapter 15. Interaction in Infinitely-Lived Institutions -- Part 6. Evolutionary Game Theory: Chapter 16. Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies -- Chapter 17. Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Replicator Dynamics -- Solutions to "Check Your Understanding" Questions -- Glossary -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781429239967
• 1429239964

LCCN

2014942190

OCLC

• ocn898588095
• 898588095
• SCSB-9402350

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries