1st Edition
Game Theory in the Social Sciences A Reader-friendly Guide
By Luca Lambertini
Copyright 2011
208 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Individuals, firms, governments and nations behave strategically, for good and bad. Over the last few decades, game theory has been constructed and progressively refined to become the major tool used by social scientists to understand, predict and regulate strategic interaction among agents who often have conflicting interests. In the surprisingly anodyne jargon of the theory, they ‘play... Read more
1. The Origins; a bit of History 2. What is a Game? 3. Solving a Game 4. Understanding Economics 5. Repeated Games and Collusive Behaviour 6. Uniderstanding Politics 7. Wargames 8. Trade, Security and Hegemony 9. The Role of Information 10. Cooperation and Bargaining
Biography
Luca Lambertini is Professor of Economics and Vice Dean in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bologna, Italy.
