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Games, Strategies and Decision Making Joseph Harrington

Games, Strategies and Decision Making By Joseph Harrington

Games, Strategies and Decision Making by Joseph Harrington


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Games, Strategies, and Decision Making develops key concepts with a minimum of mathematics. Drawing on a diverse collection of strategic scenarios, students are presented with empirical evidence, anecdotes and strategic situations to apply theory and gain a genuine insight into human behaviour.

Games, Strategies and Decision Making Summary

Games, Strategies and Decision Making by Joseph Harrington

This new text on game theory introduces and develops the key concepts with a minimum of mathematics. Students are presented with empirical evidence, anecdotes and strategic situations to help them apply theory and gain a genuine insight into human behaviour. The book provides a diverse collection of examples and scenarios from history, literature, sports, crime, theology, war, biology, and everyday life. These examples come with rich context that adds real-world meat to the skeleton of theory. Each chapter begins with a specific strategic situation and is followed with a systematic treatment that gradually builds understanding of the concept.

Games, Strategies and Decision Making Reviews

'There is no better undergraduate text in game theory. It not only covers all the topics I would cover but does so with the clarity and precision that game theory demands while at the same time providing engaging applications/examples...Harrington's game theory text is indeed the 'unique best response' for anyone who faces an adoption decision for an undergraduate game theory course.' - Klaus Becker, Texas Tech University, USA 'This book is outstanding. It's written with humour and patience and is extremely accessible to students, while still being as rigorous as any advanced text in the area. The book is both a theorist's and a student's delight!' - Thomas Jeitschko, Michigan State University, USA 'One advantage of [Harrington's] text over others is that it spends a lot of time turning situations into games, and makes a good amount of effort to motivate the payoffs used, while being clear that these are typically just assumptions. Determining payoffs in games is often as much art as science, and this text seems to do a better job than most of making this known.' - Nick Feltovich, University of Houston, USA 'Harrington introduces all of the topics you would think would be in an introductory game theory text, but what makes it exceptional is the patience and care in which he spends time seeing what the theory can buy him. That is, there are very good applications to both better show how the theory works, but also to help explain many real-world situations through the lens of game theory.' - Jesse Schwartz, Kennesaw State University, USA '[Harrington's text] is a well-written, well-structured introductory game theory textbook appropriate for an audience consisting of undergraduates majoring in different fields.' - Giacomo Bonanno, University of California, Davis, USA

About Joseph Harrington

JOSEPH E. HARRINGTON, Jr. is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He has served on numerous editorial boards, including the RAND Journal of Economics, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, and the Southern Economic Journal. His research has appeared in top journals in a variety of disciplines including economics e.g., the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Games and Economic Behavior, political science, Economics and Politics and Public Choice, sociology, American Journal of Sociology, organizational behaviour, Management Science, and psychology, Journal of Mathematical Psychology. He is a co-author of the leading textbook Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, which is currently in its fourth edition.

Table of Contents

PART I: LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS Introduction to Strategic Reasoning Building A Model of A Strategic Situation PART II: SOLVING STRATEGIC FORM GAMES Eliminating the Impossible:Solving A Game When Rationality is Common Knowledge Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete Games with Two Or Three Players Stable Play:Nash Equilibria in Discrete N-Player Games Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Continuous Games Keep 'Em Guessing: Randomized Strategies PART III: SOLVING EXTENSIVE FORM GAMES Taking Turns: Sequential Games of Perfect Information Taking Turns in the Dark: Sequential Games of Imperfect Information PART IV: GAMES OF INCOMPLETE INFORMATION I Know Something You Don't Know: Games with Private Information What You Do Tells Me Who You Are: Signaling Games Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them: Cheap Talk Games PART V: REPEATED GAMES Playing Forever: Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players Cooperation and Reputation: Applications of Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players Interaction in Infinitely-Lived Institutions PART VI: EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY AND BIOLOGY Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Replicator Dynamics

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GOR006029438
9780716766308
0716766302
Games, Strategies and Decision Making by Joseph Harrington
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Macmillan Learning
20080701
540
N/A
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