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" Games, strategies, and decision making / "
Joseph E. Harrington, Jr
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BL
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584462
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014-76037b413681
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GBA-8B194b413681
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| Main Entry
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Harrington, Joseph Emmett,1957-
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Games, strategies, and decision making /\ Joseph E. Harrington, Jr
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Worth,, c2009
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xxiii, 532, [27] p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm
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0716766302
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: 9780716766308
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction to Strategic Reasoning -- Building A Model of A Strategic Situation -- 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 -- Taking Turns: Sequential Games of Perfect Information -- Taking Turns in the Dark: Sequential Games of Imperfect 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 -- Playing Forever: Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players -- Cooperation and Reputation: Applications of Repeated Interaction with Infinitely-Lived Players -- Interaction in Infinitely-Lived Institutions -- Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies -- Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Replicator Dynamics
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| Abstract
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This book 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
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Game theory-- Decision making
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Decision making
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Games of strategy (Mathematics)
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| Dewey Classification
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330.015193
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QA269.H377 2009
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