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Economics and the Theory of Games

Author: Fernando Vega-Redondo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: games, theory, economics
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 2003-07-28
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521775906
ISBN-13: 9780521775908

Fernando Vega-Redondo’s self-contained account of the main contributions of modern game theory and its applications to economics starts with a detailed description of how to model strategic situations. The discussion proceeds by studying basic solution concepts and their main refinements; games played under incomplete information; and repeated games. For each of these theoretical developments, the text includes a companion set of applications that cover the most representative instances of game-theoretic analysis in economics (e.g., oligopolistic competition, public goods, coordination

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Complex Social Networks (Econometric Society Monographs)

Author: Fernando Vega-Redondo
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: society, monographs, econometric, networks, social, complex
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2007-01-08
List price: $37.99
ISBN-10: 0521674093
ISBN-13: 9780521674096

The book provides a systematic and self-contained account of the fast-developing theory of complex social networks. Social networks are central to the understanding of most socio-economic phenomena in the modern world. The classical approach to studying them relies on a methodology that abstracts from their size and complexity. In contrast, the approach taken in this book keeps complexity at the core, whilst integrating it with the incentive considerations that are preeminent in traditional economic analysis. The treatment starts with a detailed discussion of the basic models that act as ̵

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Evolution, Games, and Economic Behaviour

Author: Fernando Vega-Redondo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: behaviour, economic, games, evolution
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-02-27
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198774729
ISBN-13: 9780198774723

Evolution and learning in games is a topic of current intense interest. Evolution theory is widely viewed as one of the most promising approaches to understanding learning, bounded rationality, and change in complex social environments. This book covers the recent developments with an emphasis on economic contexts and applications. Systematically presenting both deterministic and stochastic evolutionary dynamics which play an important role in evolutionary processes, it also includes the recent stochastic evolutionary framework that has been developed (and applied widely) in the last few years

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Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution

Authors:Fernando E. Vega, Meredith Blackwell,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evolution, ecology, associations, fungal, insect
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-02-03
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195166523
ISBN-13: 9780195166521

Insects and fungi have a shared history of association in common habitats where together they endure similar environmental conditions, but only recently have mycologists and entomologists recognized and had the techniques to study the intricacies of some of the associations. This new volume covers "seven wonders of the insect-fungus world" for which exciting new results have become available, often due to the use of new methods that include phylogenetic analysis and development of molecular markers. Eleven chapters of the volume are presented in two sections, "Fungi that act against insects"

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Reasons for Action and the Law (LAW AND PHILOSOPHY LIBRARY Volume 43)

Authors:M.C. Redondo, Cristina Redondo,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: law, volume, library, philosophy, reasons, action
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-07-31
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 0792359127
ISBN-13: 9780792359128

A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline. This book offers a critical evaluation of that approach, by carefully examining the empirical, logical and normative problems hidden behind the concepts of `reason for action’ and `practical reasoning’. Unlike most other works in this field, it is a meta-theoretical study which analyses and compares how different theories use the notion of reason in their reconstruction of problems concerning iss