[PDF] Economics And The Theory Of Games eBook

Author : John Von Neumann
Publisher : Diana
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9785608789779

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This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences.

Author : Fernando Vega-Redondo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2003-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521775908

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Author : Drew Fudenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262061940

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This work explains that equilibrium is the long-run outcome of a process in which non-fully rational players search for optimality over time. The models they e×plore provide a foundation for equilibrium theory and suggest ways for economists to evaluate and modify traditional equilibrium concepts.

Author : Aviad Heifetz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521176042

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A guide to the fundamentals of game theory for undergraduates and MBA students.

Author : David M. Kreps
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198283814

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Comprises lectures given at Tel Aviv University and Oxford University in 1990.

Author : Thomas J. Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315497239

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Game theory is the study of strategic behavior in situations in which the decision makers are aware of the interdependence of their actions. This innovative textbook introduces students to the most basic principles of game theory - move and countermove - with an emphasis on real-world business and economic applications. Students with a background in principles of economics and business mathematics can readily understand most of the material.Demonstration problems in each chapter are designed to enhance the student's understanding of the concepts presented in the text. Many chapters include non-technical applications designed to further the student's intuitive understanding of strategic behavior. Case studies help underscore the usefulness of game theory for analyzing real-world situations. Each chapter concludes with a review and questions and exercises. An online Instructor's Manual with test bank is available to professors who adopt the text.

Author : Michael Bacharach
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
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ISBN : 9780367171742

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This textbook offers a systematic, self-contained account of the main contributions of modern game theory and its applications to economics. Starting with a detailed description of how to model strategic situations, the discussion proceeds by studying basic solution concepts, their main refinements, games played under incomplete information, and repeated games. For each of these theoretical developments, there is a companion set of applications that cover the most representative instances of game-theoretic analysis in economics, e.g. oligopolistic competition, public goods, coordination failures, bargaining, insurance markets, implementation theory, signaling and auctions. The theory and applications covered in the first part of the book fall under the so-called 'classical' approach to game theory, which is founded on the paradigm of players' unlimited rationality. The second part shifts towards topics that no longer abide by that paradigm. This leads to the study of topics such as the interplay between evolution and rationality.

Author : Jean-Pierre Aubin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 048646265X

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Mathematical economics and game theory approached with the fundamental mathematical toolbox of nonlinear functional analysis are the central themes of this text. Both optimization and equilibrium theories are covered in full detail. The book's central application is the fundamental economic problem of allocating scarce resources among competing agents, which leads to considerations of the interrelated applications in game theory and the theory of optimization. Mathematicians, mathematical economists, and operations research specialists will find that it provides a solid foundation in nonlinear functional analysis. This text begins by developing linear and convex analysis in the context of optimization theory. The treatment includes results on the existence and stability of solutions to optimization problems as well as an introduction to duality theory. The second part explores a number of topics in game theory and mathematical economics, including two-person games, which provide the framework to study theorems of nonlinear analysis. The text concludes with an introduction to non-linear analysis and optimal control theory, including an array of fixed point and subjectivity theorems that offer powerful tools in proving existence theorems.

Author : Harold William Kuhn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400829151

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Classics in Game Theory assembles in one sourcebook the basic contributions to the field that followed on the publication of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern (Princeton, 1944). The theory of games, first given a rigorous formulation by von Neumann in a in 1928, is a subfield of mathematics and economics that models situations in which individuals compete and cooperate with each other. In the "heroic era" of research that began in the late 1940s, the foundations of the current theory were laid; it is these fundamental contributions that are collected in this volume. In the last fifteen years, game theory has become the dominant model in economic theory and has made significant contributions to political science, biology, and international security studies. The central role of game theory in economic theory was recognized by the award of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1994 to the pioneering game theorists John C. Harsanyi, John Nash, and Reinhard Selten. The fundamental works for which they were honored are all included in this volume. Harold Kuhn, himself a major contributor to game theory for his reformulation of extensive games, has chosen eighteen essays that constitute the core of game theory as it exists today. Drawn from a variety of sources, they will be an invaluable tool for researchers in game theory and for a broad group of students of economics, political science, and biology.

Author : Bruce Wydick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2007-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139468014

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Games in Economic Development examines the roots of poverty and prosperity through the lens of elementary game theory, illustrating how patterns of human interaction can lead to vicious cycles of poverty as well as virtuous cycles of prosperity. This book shows how both social norms and carefully designed institutions can help shape the 'rules of the game', making better outcomes in a game possible for everyone involved. The book is entertaining to read, it can be accessed with little background in development economics or game theory. Its chapters explore games in natural resource use; education; coping with risk; borrowing and lending; technology adoption; governance and corruption; civil conflict; international trade; and the importance of networks, religion, and identity, illustrating concepts with numerous anecdotes from recent world events. Comes complete with an appendix, explaining the basic ideas in game theory used in the book.