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Toward a History of Game Theory

Author : E. Roy Weintraub
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822312536
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Toward a History of Game Theory written by E. Roy Weintraub and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

Author : John Neumann
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983879371
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior written by John Neumann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an exposition and various applications of a mathematical theory of games.

The World the Game Theorists Made

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609717X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The World the Game Theorists Made written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, game theory is central to our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and much more. Both the social and biological sciences have seemingly fused around the game. Yet the ascendancy of game theory and theories of rational choice more generally remains a rich source of misunderstanding. To gain a better grasp of the widespread dispersion of game theory and the mathematics of rational choice, Paul Erickson uncovers its history during the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern s seminal "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" in 1944 and the theory s revival in economics in the 1980s. "The World the Game Theorists Made "reveals how the mathematics of rational choice was a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging debate on some of the great issues of the time. Because it so actively persists in the sciences and public life, assessing the significance of game theory for the postwar sciences is especially critical now."

A History of Game Theory

Author : Mary Ann Dimand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book A History of Game Theory written by Mary Ann Dimand and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas

Author : Pierre Garrouste
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781950227
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas written by Pierre Garrouste and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this text, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analyzing the processes that lead to that state.

Game Theory and Economic Analysis

Author : Christian Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134511183
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Game Theory and Economic Analysis written by Christian Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the huge variety of current contributions of game theory to economics. The reader is taken through a concise history of game theory and exposed to original pieces of work that are significant to game theory as a whole.

The History Of Game Theory, Volume 1

Author : Mary-Ann Dimand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113490780X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The History Of Game Theory, Volume 1 written by Mary-Ann Dimand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996-08-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On Coordination in Non-Cooperative Game Theory

Author : Lauren Larrouy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031361717
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book On Coordination in Non-Cooperative Game Theory written by Lauren Larrouy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By offering a critical assessment of the evolution of standard game theory, this book argues for a shift in the ontology and methodology of game theory for appraising games, one based on understanding the players’ strategic reasoning process. Analyzing the history of economic thought, the book highlights the methodological issues faced by standard game theory in its treatment of strategic reasoning and the consequence it has on the status of players’ beliefs. It also highlights how the two original contributions of T. C. Schelling and M. Bacharach can be applied to these issues. Furthermore, the book assesses the intersubjective dimension in games by applying the cognitive sciences and by integrating simulation theory into game theory. Consequently, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach for reassessing the nature of the intersubjectivity involved in strategic reasoning. It shows that the analysis of games should involve the study and identification of the reasoning process that leads the players to a specific outcome, i.e., to a specific solution. A game should not be understood (as is done in standard game theory) as a mathematical representation of an individual choice at equilibrium. This requires investigating the players’ capacity for coordination. Understanding the process of coordination allows us to understand strategic reasoning and ultimately to provide new answers to the indeterminacy problem, one of the central hurdles in game theory, and one that underscores its normative difficulties.

The World the Game Theorists Made

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609720X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The World the Game Theorists Made written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades game theory—the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals—has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory’s ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretive styles of inquiry, and many accuse its proponents of presenting a thin and empirically dubious view of human choice. The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern’s seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory’s revival in economics in the 1980s. Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604677X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people—Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others—and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a “Cold War rationality.” Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.

Behavioral Game Theory

Author : Colin F. Camerer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840880
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Behavioral Game Theory written by Colin F. Camerer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games. This book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to close this gap. Colin Camerer, one of the field's leading figures, uses psychological principles and hundreds of experiments to develop mathematical theories of reciprocity, limited strategizing, and learning, which help predict what real people and companies do in strategic situations. Unifying a wealth of information from ongoing studies in strategic behavior, he takes the experimental science of behavioral economics a major step forward. He does so in lucid, friendly prose. Behavioral game theory has three ingredients that come clearly into focus in this book: mathematical theories of how moral obligation and vengeance affect the way people bargain and trust each other; a theory of how limits in the brain constrain the number of steps of "I think he thinks . . ." reasoning people naturally do; and a theory of how people learn from experience to make better strategic decisions. Strategic interactions that can be explained by behavioral game theory include bargaining, games of bluffing as in sports and poker, strikes, how conventions help coordinate a joint activity, price competition and patent races, and building up reputations for trustworthiness or ruthlessness in business or life. While there are many books on standard game theory that address the way ideally rational actors operate, Behavioral Game Theory stands alone in blending experimental evidence and psychology in a mathematical theory of normal strategic behavior. It is must reading for anyone who seeks a more complete understanding of strategic thinking, from professional economists to scholars and students of economics, management studies, psychology, political science, anthropology, and biology.

Money and Markets

Author : Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134175043
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Money and Markets written by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in contemporary economics. Addressing this popular and topical area in economic discussion and debate an impressive array of contributors, including Meghnad Desai, Charles Goodhart and John Davis examine the theory, policy and history of economics in the USA, Europe and Japan. The subjects covered include: the history of economic thought money and banking monetary economics poverty modern economic history. This volume is essential reading for postdoctoral researchers and historians of economic thought across the globe.

Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour

Author : Pier Luigi Porta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782542377
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour written by Pier Luigi Porta and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The complex interplay of the formation and communication of knowledge, the structure of social interaction, and the evolution of the division of labour, is here skilfully explored in a broad historical, philosophical and analytical framework by a truly international meeting of minds, enabling an encounter with great thinkers, past and present, commencing with Hume and Smith. A heady and unusual elixir, finely distilled, and to be slowly enjoyed if its sophisticated benefits are to be fully gathered by the reader.' - Peter Groenewegen, University of Sydney, Australia Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour gives rise to a new and richer institutional analysis of the economy centred around the analysis of language, the division of labour and social knowledge. It is in this perspective that the economic analysis of institutions comes to be associated with the study of civil society, or with the broad framework of communication and coordination behind the interaction of individuals in economic and non-economic spheres. This fascinating book is divided into three parts beginning with the issue of the development of science as an aspect of the division of labour, starting from methodological problems on the communication of scientific knowledge. The volume goes on to explore issues on the moral bases of social interaction and, more particularly, of commercial society before ending with in depth analyses of questions on the division of labour, social institutions and the diffusion of knowledge in society.

Herbert A. Simon

Author : Hunter Crowther-Heyck
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880254
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Herbert A. Simon written by Hunter Crowther-Heyck and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this informed and discerning study, Crowther-Heyck explores Simon's contributions to science and their influences on modern life and thought. For historians of science, social science, technology, and twentieth-century American intellectual and cultural history, this account of Herbert Simon's life and work provides a rich and valuable perspective. Rarely does the world see as versatile a figure as Herbert Simon. He was a Nobel laureate in economics; an accomplished political scientist; winner of a lifetime achievement award from the American Psychological Association; and founder of the department of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. In all his work in all these fields, he pursued a single goal - to create a science that could map the bounds of human reason and so enlarge its role in human affairs. Hunter Crowther-Heyck uses the career of this unique individual to examine the evolution of the social sciences after World War II, particularly Simon's creation of a new field, systems science, which joined together two distinct, powerful approaches to human behavior, the sciences of choice and control. Simon sought to develop methods by which human behavior: specifically human problem-solving, could be modeled and simulated. Regarding mind and machine as synonymous, Simon applied his models of human behavior to many other areas, from public administration and business management to artificial intelligence and the design of complex social and technical systems. In this informed and discerning study, Crowther-Heyck explores Simon's contributions to science and their influences on modern life and thought.

No Accident, Comrade

Author : Steven Belletto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199354359
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book No Accident, Comrade written by Steven Belletto and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an examination of American novels and nonfiction texts, published between 1947 and 2005, that looks at the concept of chance and how it was denied in the Soviet Union.

Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Author : Patrick Baert
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745639801
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond written by Patrick Baert and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and classic schools of thought. The authors also bridge the gap between philosophy and social theory, locating the theoretical views of individuals such as Giddens, Foucault and Habermas within wider historical traditions.

Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis

Author : Howard Lune
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412967392
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis written by Howard Lune and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows students the steps involved in the research process, the various strategies for conducting a valid social inquiry, and most importantly, the persuasiveness and elegance of reliable social research. It highlights the link between academic research and the real world. Included are carefully chosen examples of each of the major methodological techniques-survey, interviews, fieldwork observations, experiments, content analysis, secondary analysis and program evaluation. Also included are selections on sampling strategies, research ethics and both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.