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An edition of A Course In Game Theory (2020)

A Course In Game Theory

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Game theory is a fascinating subject. We all know many entertaining games, such as chess, poker, tic-tac-toe, bridge, baseball, computer games ― the list is quite varied and almost endless. In addition, there is a vast area of economic games, discussed in Myerson (1991) and Kreps (1990), and the related political games [Ordeshook (1986), Shubik (1982), and Taylor (1995)]. The competition between firms, the conflict between management and labor, the fight to get bills through congress, the power of the judiciary, war and peace negotiations between countries, and so on, all provide examples of games in action. There are also psychological games played on a personal level, where the weapons are words, and the payoffs are good or bad feelings [Berne (1964)]. There are biological games, the competition between species, where natural selection can be modeled as a game played between genes [Smith (1982)]. There is a connection between game theory and the mathematical areas of logic and computer science. One may view theoretical statistics as a two-person game in which nature takes the role of one of the players, as in Blackwell and Girshick (1954) and Ferguson (1968).

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Pages
412

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A Course In Game Theory
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First Sentence

"Combinatorial games are two-person games with perfect informations and no chance moves, and with a win-or-lose outcome."

Table of Contents

--Pt. 1:impartial combinatorial games
--Take-away games
--The game of Nim
--Graph games
--Sums of combinatorial games
--Coin turning games
--Green Hackenbush --
--Pt. 2:two-person zero-sum games
--The strategic form of a game
--Matrix games
--Domination
--The principle of indifference
--Solving finite games
--The extensive form of a game
--Recursive and stochastic games
--Infinite games
--Pt. 3: two-person general-sum games
--Bimatrix games
--safety levels
--Noncooperative games
--Models of duopoly
--Cooperative games
--Pt. 4: games in coalitional form
--Many-person TU games
--Imputations and the core
--The shapely value
--The nucleolus.
--Bibliography
--Index

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Typeset by Stallion Press.
Printed in Singapore.

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Singapore, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
Copyright Date
©2020

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
519.3
Library of Congress
QA269 .F45 2020, QA269.F47 2017

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xviii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Number of pages
412
Dimensions
15 x 2 x 23 centimeters
Weight
2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39216998M
ISBN 10
9813227346
ISBN 13
9789813227347
LCCN
2020029665
OCLC/WorldCat
988749668
Library Thing
28505418
Amazon ID (ASIN)
9813227346
Goodreads
56333150

Work Description

Games are characterized by a number of players or decision makers who interact, possibly threaten each other and form coalitions, take actions under uncertain conditions, and finally receive some benefit or reward or possibly some punishment or monetary loss. In this text, the author presents various mathematical models of games and study the phenomena that arise. In some cases, the author will be able to suggest what courses of action should be taken by the players. In others, the author hopes simply to be able to understand what is happening in order to make better predictions about the future.

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