Game Theory. A Very Short Introduction
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Author(s): K. Binmore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199218462
Format: softback
183pp
Price: £6.99
Review Date: 25 October 2007
Review: This is the latest in OUP’s series of short introductions, and gives a short introduction to game theory. Game theory is the study of games and how we can predict their outcome, whether in economics, evolutionary biology, prison escapes or online poker. This little book explains how game theory can be understood without mathematical equations and how the theory has affected the sciences. There are chapters on: chance; time; conventions; reciprocity; information; auctions; evolutionary biology; bargaining and coalitions; and puzzles and paradoxes.