Game Theory
by Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-12-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Game theory continues to draw interest across the social sciences, not least because of its broad applications. This volume contains over 35 articles integral to the understanding of the field, including entries on the Nash program, the Shapley value, learning and evolution in games, and epistemic game theory. Book jacket.
Author Biography
STEVEN N. DURLAUF is the Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA. He has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program of the Santa Fe Institute and is currently a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, Durlauf's research covers a range of topics in macroeconomics, econometrics, and income inequality. He received a BA in Economics from Harvard in 1980 and his PhD in Economics from Yale in 1986.
LAWRENCE E BLUME is Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA. He is a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program and on the Institute's steering committee. He teaches and conducts research in general equilibrium theory and game theory, and also has research projects on natural resource management and network design. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, he received an AB in Economics from Washington University and a PhD in Economics from Berkeley.
LAWRENCE E BLUME is Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA. He is a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program and on the Institute's steering committee. He teaches and conducts research in general equilibrium theory and game theory, and also has research projects on natural resource management and network design. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, he received an AB in Economics from Washington University and a PhD in Economics from Berkeley.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | p. vii |
| General Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. x |
| bargaining | p. 1 |
| behavioural economics and game theory | p. 20 |
| behavioural game theory | p. 29 |
| cheap talk | p. 38 |
| computer science and game theory | p. 48 |
| cooperation | p. 66 |
| deterministic evolutionary dynamics | p. 78 |
| epistemic game theory: an overview | p. 87 |
| epistemic game theory: beliefs and types | p. 89 |
| epistemic game theory: complete information | p. 97 |
| epistemic game theory: incomplete information | p. 114 |
| game theory and biology | p. 119 |
| games in coalitional form | p. 127 |
| global games | p. 144 |
| graphical games | p. 153 |
| incentive compatibility | p. 158 |
| large games (structural robustness) | p. 169 |
| learning and evolution in games: adaptive heuristics | p. 178 |
| learning and evolution in games: an overview | p. 184 |
| learning and evolution in games: belief learning | p. 191 |
| learning and evolution in games: ESS | p. 199 |
| mechanism design | p. 207 |
| mechanism design (new developments) | p. 223 |
| mixed strategy equilibrium | p. 235 |
| Nash equilibrium, refinements of | p. 240 |
| Nash programme | p. 256 |
| non-cooperative games (equilibrium existence) | p. 263 |
| psychological games | p. 272 |
| purification | p. 279 |
| repeated games | p. 286 |
| reputation | p. 300 |
| revelation principle | p. 312 |
| Shapley value | |
| stochastic adaptive dynamics | |
| strategic and extensive form games | p. 333 |
| strategy-proof allocation mechanisms | p. 355 |
| supermodularity and supermodular games | p. 361 |
| Index | p. 372 |
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