Author: Martin J. Osborne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: theory, game, introduction
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2003-08-07
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0195128958
ISBN-13: 9780195128956

Game-theoretic reasoning pervades economic theory and is used widely in other social and behavioral sciences. An Introduction to Game Theory, by Martin J. Osborne, presents the main principles of game theory and shows how they can be used to understand economic, social, political, and biological phenomena. The book introduces in an accessible manner the main ideas behind the theory rather than their mathematical expression. All concepts are defined precisely, and logical reasoning is used throughout. The book requires an understanding of basic mathematics but assumes no specific knowledge of e

Authors:Martin J. Osborne, Ariel Rubinstein,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: theory, game, course
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1994-07-12
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0262650401
ISBN-13: 9780262650403

"I recommend this book highly, it is beautifully done..." -- Robert Aumann, Hebrew University A Course in Game Theory presents the main ideas of game theory at a level suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, emphasizing the theory’s foundations and interpretations of its basic concepts. The authors provide precise definitions and full proofs of results, sacrificing generalities and limiting the scope of the material in order to do so. The text is organized in four parts: strategic games, extensive games with perfect information, extensive games with imperfec

Author: Peter C. Ordeshook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: theory, introduction, political, game
Number of Pages: 511
Published: 1986-09-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 052131593X
ISBN-13: 9780521315937

Formal political theory seeks to develop formal, mathematical models of political and economic processes. This book attempts to integrate the last twenty years of development in this field. Professor Ordeshook uses the modern developments in the theory of games (decision making with multiple, interactive decision makers) as the basis for the synthesis. Topics covered include models of elections and of committee processes, the demand and supply of public goods, and surveys of game theory and social-choice theory. Game Theory and Political Theory is designed as a textbook for graduate courses in

Author: Joachim Rosenmuller
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: theory, game, mathematical, programming, library, strategies, stochastics, information, decision
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $369.00
ISBN-10: 0792386736
ISBN-13: 9780792386735

Game Theory: Stochastics, Information, Strategies and Cooperation provides a discussion of some relevant topics in game theory. It is composed partially from material compiled by Professor Joachim Rosenmuller when lecturing at IMW, the Institute of Mathematical Economics at the University of Bielefeld. On the other hand, it also contains research topics that are not presented in a typical game theory textbook. Thus, the volume may provide the basis for an advanced course in game theory; simultaneously it may be called a monograph, and, as a third aspect, it also supplies some rather elementary

Author: Christian Schmidt
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: game, theory, routledge, advances, economics, quiet, economic, analysis, revolution
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-08-02
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0415259878
ISBN-13: 9780415259873

This book presents the huge variety of current contributions of game theory to economics. The impressive contributions fall broadly into two categories. Some lay out in a jargon free manner a particular branch of the theory, the evolution of one of its concepts, or a problem, that runs through its development. Others are original pieces of work that are significant to game theory as a whole.After taking the reader through a concise history of game theory, the contributions include such themes as:*the connections between Von Neumann’s mathematical game theory and the domain assigned to hi

Author: James Miller
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: game, theory, competition, outmaneuver, work, outthink
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-03-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0071400206
ISBN-13: 9780071400206

An easy-to-follow, non-technical approach to using game theory in every business battle Game theory has become entrenched in today’s business world. It has also often required oppressive and incomprehensible mathematics. Game Theory at Work steers around math and pedagogy to make this innovative tool accessible to a larger audience and allow all levels of business to use it to both improve decision-making skills and eliminate potentially lethal uncertainty. This proven tool requires everyone in an organization to look at the competition, guage his or her own responses to their actions, a

Author: Morton D. Davi
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: introduction, nontechnical, theory, game
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0486296725
ISBN-13: 9780486296722

Fascinating, accessible introduction to enormously important intellectual system with numerous applications to social, economic, political problems. Newly revised edition offers overview of game theory, then lucid coverage of the two-person zero-sum game with equilibrium points; the general, two-person zero-sum game; utility theory; other topics. Problems at start of each chapter. Foreword to First Edition by Oskar Morgenstern. Bibliography.