Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice (2nd Edition) – eBook

Strategies and Games Second Edition is a widely used introduction to game theory and its applications, with a focus on economics, business, and politics.

This widely used introduction to game theory, Strategies and Games, 2nd Edition (ePub/PDF) is rigorous but accessible, unique in its balance between the theoretical and the practical, with examples and applications following almost every theory-driven chapter. In recent years, game theory has become an important methodological tool for all fields of social sciences, biology, and computer science. This Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice 2nd Edition not only considers new game theoretical concepts and applications such as bargaining and matching, it also provides an array of chapters on game theory applied to the political arena. New examples, case studies, and applications relevant to a wide range of behavioral disciplines are now included. The authors map out alternate pathways through the ebook for business, economics, and political science instructors.

The ebook contains four parts: strategic form games, asymmetric information games, extensive form games, and cooperative games and matching. Theoretical topics include dominance solutions, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, subgame perfection, repeated and dynamic games, Condorcet paradox, Bayes-Nash equilibrium, mechanism design, auction theory, signaling, the Shapley value, and stable matchings. Applications and case studies include OPEC, voting, poison pills, Treasury auctions, trade agreements, pork-barrel spending, climate change, bargaining and audience costs, markets for lemons, and school choice. Every chapter includes concept checks and tallies end-of-chapter problems. An appendix thoroughly discusses single-agent decision theory, which underpins game theory.

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