A Course in Game Theory | Ferguson Thomas S. | Twarda | Twarda

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Game theory is a fascinating subject. We all know many entertaining games, such as chess, poker, tic-tac-toe, bridge, baseball, computer games -- the list is quite varied and almost endless. In addition, there is a vast area of economic games, discussed in Myerson 1991 and Kreps 1990, and the related political games Ordeshook 1986, Shubik 1982, and Taylor 1995. The competition between firms, the conflict between management and labor, the fight to get bills through congress, the power of the judiciary, war and peace negotiations between countries, and so on, all provide examples of games in action. There are also psychological games played on a personal level, where the weapons are words, and the payoffs are good or bad feelings Berne 1964. There are biological games, the competition between species, where natural selection can be modeled as a game played between genes Smith 1982. There is a connection between game theory and the mathematical areas of logic and computer science. One may

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