Toward a History of Game Theory

Toward a History of Game Theory
Author: E. Roy Weintraub
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822312536

During the 1940s "game theory" emerged from the fields of mathematics and economics to provide a revolutionary new method of analysis. Today game theory provides a language for discussing conflict and cooperation not only for economists, but also for business analysts, sociologists, war planners, international relations theorists, and evolutionary biologists. Toward a History of Game Theory offers the first history of the development, reception, and dissemination of this crucial theory. Drawing on interviews with original members of the game theory community and on the Morgenstern diaries, the first section of the book examines early work in game theory. It focuses on the groundbreaking role of the von Neumann-Morgenstern collaborative work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944). The second section recounts the reception of this new theory, revealing just how game theory made its way into the literatures of the time and thus became known among relevant communities of scholars. The contributors explore how game theory became a wedge in opening up the social sciences to mathematical tools and use the personal recollections of scholars who taught at Michigan and Princeton in the late 1940s to show why the theory captivated those practitioners now considered to be "giants" in the field. The final section traces the flow of the ideas of game theory into political science, operations research, and experimental economics. Contributors. Mary Ann Dimand, Robert W. Dimand, Robert J. Leonard, Philip Mirowski, Angela M. O'Rand, Howard Raiffa, Urs Rellstab, Robin E. Rider, William H. Riker, Andrew Schotter, Martin Shubik, Vernon L. Smith

From the Beginnings to 1945

From the Beginnings to 1945
Author: Mary Ann Dimand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Game theory
ISBN: 9780415072571

This first volume (of three) examines the methodological origins of game theory up to the Second World War. It adds to the understanding of game theory's contentious roots and offers insights into modern applications of the theory.

The History Of Game Theory, Volume 1

The History Of Game Theory, Volume 1
Author: Mary-Ann Dimand
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1996-08-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134907796

Game Theory - the formal modelling of conflict and cooperation - first emerged as a recognized field with a publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour in 1944. Since then, game-theoretic thinking about choice of strategies and the interdependence of people's actions has influenced all the social s

Game Theory

Game Theory
Author: Giacomo Bonanno
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-01-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983604638

This is the first of a two-volume set that provides an introduction to non-cooperative Game Theory. Volume 1 covers the basic concepts, while Volume 2 is devoted to advanced topics.This volume is divided into two parts: Part I deals with games with ordinal payoffs, while Part II covers games with cardinal payoffs. In each part we discuss both strategic-form games and dynamic games. This volume is relatively short (approximately 260 pages) and richly illustrated with approximately 200 figures. It is suitable for both self-study and as the basis for an undergraduate course in game theory as well as (together with Volume 2) a first-year graduate-level class. It is written to be accessible to anybody with high-school level knowledge of mathematics. At the end of each chapter there is a collection of exercises accompanied by detailed answers. Volume 1 contains approximately 90 exercises.

Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications

Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications
Author: R.J. Aumann
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 824
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780444894274

This is the second of three volumes surveying the state of the art in Game Theory and its applications to many and varied fields, in particular to economics. The chapters in the present volume are contributed by outstanding authorities, and provide comprehensive coverage and precise statements of the main results in each area. The applications include empirical evidence. The following topics are covered: communication and correlated equilibria, coalitional games and coalition structures, utility and subjective probability, common knowledge, bargaining, zero-sum games, differential games, and applications of game theory to signalling, moral hazard, search, evolutionary biology, international relations, voting procedures, social choice, public economics, politics, and cost allocation. This handbook will be of interest to scholars in economics, political science, psychology, mathematics and biology. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes

Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Author: K. G. Binmore
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2007-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199218463

Games are played everywhere: from economics to evolutionary biology, and from social interactions to online auctions. This title shows how to play such games in a rational way, and how to maximize their outcomes.

Frontiers of Game Theory

Frontiers of Game Theory
Author: K. G. Binmore
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262023566

seventeen contributions reflecting the many diverse approaches in the field todayThese seventeen contributions take up the most recent research in game theory, reflecting the many diverse approaches in the field today. They are classified in five general tactical categories - prediction, explanation, investigation, description, and prescription - and wit in these along applied and theoretical divisions. The introduction clearly lays out this framework.

Evolution and the Theory of Games

Evolution and the Theory of Games
Author: John Maynard Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1982-10-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521288842

This 1982 book is an account of an alternative way of thinking about evolution and the theory of games.

Game Theory and Politics

Game Theory and Politics
Author: Steven J. Brams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486143635

DIVMany illuminating and instructive examples of the applications of game theoretic models to problems in political science appear in this volume, which requires minimal mathematical background. 1975 edition. 24 figures. /div