The World the Game Theorists Made

The World the Game Theorists Made
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9780226097176
ISBN-13 : 022609717X
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Download or read book The World the Game Theorists Made written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, game theory is central to our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and much more. Both the social and biological sciences have seemingly fused around the game. Yet the ascendancy of game theory and theories of rational choice more generally remains a rich source of misunderstanding. To gain a better grasp of the widespread dispersion of game theory and the mathematics of rational choice, Paul Erickson uncovers its history during the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern s seminal "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" in 1944 and the theory s revival in economics in the 1980s. "The World the Game Theorists Made "reveals how the mathematics of rational choice was a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging debate on some of the great issues of the time. Because it so actively persists in the sciences and public life, assessing the significance of game theory for the postwar sciences is especially critical now."


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