An exposition of modern game theory suitable for advanced undergraduates. The book emphasizes the ideas behind the theory rather than their mathematical expression, but defines all concepts precisely. Covers strategic, extensive, and coalitional games, and includes the topics of repeated games, bargaining theory, and evolutionary equilibrium.
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"This is a textbook to be enjoyed both by professors and students, full of clever and often original applications and examples. Serious students who use this text are likely to emerge with a new way of thinking about much of what they see in the real world."--Ted Bergstrom, Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The book is just superb. I anticipate (based both on my own reading of the book, and comments from colleagues at other institutions) that this will be the standard text for introductory courses in game theory in political science departments for the foreseeable future."--Scott Gehlbach, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
"What distinguishes this book from other texts is its remarkable combination of rigor and accessibility. The central concepts of game theory are presented with the mathematical precision suitable for a graduate course, but with an abundance of wide-ranging examples that will give undergraduate students a concrete understanding of what the concepts mean and how they may be used."--Charles A. Wilson, Professor of Economics, New York University
"A great book, by far the best out there in the market in thoroughness and structure."--Dorothea Herreiner, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College
"The ideal textbook for applied game theory . . . . It teaches basic game theory from the ground up, using just enough clearly defined technical terminology and ranging from traditional basics to the most modern tools."--Randy Calvert, Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St.Louis
"The approach is intuitive, yet rigorous. Key concepts are explained through a series of examples to guide students through analysis. The examples are then followed by interesting and challenging questions. The main strength is the impressive set of exercises . . . they are extremely well organized and incredibly broad, ranging from easy questions to those for adv
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Its a book that really makes you think. You have to think in unconventional ways, with a range of diagrammatic approaches to solve problems that look pretty on paper. The text is sometimes too dense, however, and the problems serve to illustrate every different scenario possible under the analysis, which means that no two are ever alike, however if situations are similar the answers required can be also. Owing to the dissimilarity of questions, its not necessarily the best book one can revise from (for exams), as an important component for exams is getting a feel of the type of questions through repetition.
Another MAJOR BUMMER is that the author refuses to give out the answers. He grants permission to Game Theory teachers to give out hard-copies, but given that the answers take up 200 pages some teachers are (understandably?) apprehensive to printing out such paper as they only require their students to answer a selection of questions. The problem is if someone is independently studying, they have no way to check their progress. However, someone has kindly uploaded a scanned copy of the answers on a torrent site (search for An introduction to Econometrics), and it can be downloaded (though I'm not sure of the legality of this).
That said, the text is dense and you have to wade through the specialised notation, but once you solve a problem successfully, it makes the high that much more.
Another MAJOR BUMMER is that the author refuses to give out the answers. He grants permission to Game Theory teachers to give out hard-copies, but given that the answers take up 200 pages some teachers are (understandably?) apprehensive to printing out such paper as they only require their students to answer a selection of questions. The problem is if someone is independently studying, they have no way to check their progress. However, someone has kindly uploaded a scanned copy of the answers on a torrent site (search for An introduction to Econometrics), and it can be downloaded (though I'm not sure of the legality of this).
That said, the text is dense and you have to wade through the specialised notation, but once you solve a problem successfully, it makes the high that much more.
By MR T GRAY
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Good book, very informative and extremely useful for my University course. Lots of mathematics and heavy reading to be expected!
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This item is not a hardcover version which is different from the image, and it is damaged. In addition, the cover is very dirty.
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