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Games, strategies, and decision making
- 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
- 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