This book offers an introduction to game theory, for academics and undergraduates interested in economic theory, but with no prior knowledge of game theory. It is written in non-technical language and concepts are developed as the book progresses....
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This book offers an introduction to game theory, for academics and undergraduates interested in economic theory, but with no prior knowledge of game theory. It is written in non-technical language and concepts are developed as the book progresses. Game theory is currently a very popular tool of analysis, and this book looks at reasons why this is so. This is the first title to be published in the Clarendon Lectures in Economics series (see overleaf).The Clarendon Lectures in EconomicsThese lectures were established in 1987. They consist of coherent sets of three to four lectures given by disti
Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The standard; 3. Basic notions of non-cooperative game theory; 4. The successes of game theory; 5. The problems of game theory; 6. Bounded rationality and retrospection; Bibliography; Index
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1. Nested games and rationality2. In defense of the rational-choice approach -- 3. Two-person games with variable payoffs -- 4. Games with variable rules, or the politics of institutional change -- 5. Why do British Labour Party activists commit political suicide? -- 6. A rational-choice approach to consociationalism -- 7. The cohesion of French electoral coalitions -- 8. Conclusions.
