Readings in Games and Information

Informationen zum Autor Eric Rasmusen is Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Sanjay Subhedar Faculty Fellow at Indiana University! and has also held positions at UCLA! the University of Chicago! Harvard! and Yale. He has published in the areas of anti--trust! industrial organization! political economy! law and economics! and game theory. Klappentext This essential collection brings together influential classic and contemporary articles from a variety of sources to present the key topics in game theory. Rather than an exhaustive volume, this superb resource offers students and researchers an accessible treatment of game theory essentials. The text is interspersed with editorial commentary, newspaper articles and cartoons, recommendations for further reading, and a substantial amount of material on how to conduct research in this area. Readings in Games and Information is an exceptional course companion, used alone or as a supplement to Rasmusen's Games and Information (third edition, Blackwell, 2001). Zusammenfassung This highly original collection brings together contemporary articles from a variety of sources to present the key topics in game theory. The book includes a combination of classic and contemporary readings from a range of books and journals that together present a complete resource for students and researchers of game theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 8039427

List of contents

Preface.
Acknowledgements.

Part One: The Rules of the Game.

Introduction.

1. The Prisoner s Dilemma (Philip D. Straffin, Jr.).

2. A two-Person Dilemma (Albert Tucker).

3. Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games (John F. Nash Jr.).

4. Non-Cooperative Games (John F. Nash, Jr.).

5. To Ensure High Prices, Some Haulers Have Been Known to Break the Rules (Jeff Bailey).

6. Cash Flow: Pay to Play is Banned, But Muni-Bond Firms Keep the game Going (Charles Gasparino and Josh P. Hamilton).

7. School of Genius (Sylvia Nasar).

8. Cartoon: Ratbert the Consultant (Scott Adams) .

Part Two: Information.

9. The Donation Booth (Ian Ayres and Jeremy Bulow).

10. The Horatii and the Curiatii (Livy).

11. TREES - A Decision-Maker s Lament (Michael H. Rothkopf).

12. Knowing and Sowing Economic s and Law (Judith Lachman).

13. Cartoon: "All Those in Favor, Say Aye " (Henry Martin) .

Part Three: Mixed and Continuous Strategies.

Introduction.

14. Colonel Blotto: A Problem of Military Strategy (John McDonald and John W. Tukey).

15. Dutch Accountants Take on a Formidable Task: Ferreting Our "Cheaters" in the Ranks of OPEC (Paul Hemp).

16. Shipping Price-Fixing Pacts Hurt Consumers, Critics Say (Anna Wilde Mathews).

17. The Conference Handbook (George Stigler).

18. Cartoon:" Very Guilty" (Jim Unger) .

Part Four: Dynamic Games with Symmetric Information.

Introduction.

19. On An Application of Set Theory to the Theory of the Game of Chess (Ernst Zermelo).

20. The Strategy of Conflict (Thomas C. Schelling).

21. Does the Fittest Necessarily Survive (Martin Shubik).

22. Shooting the Bird s Eye (Elizabeth Seeger).

23. Cartoon: "That s It? That s Peer Review (Sidney Harris) .

Part Five: Reputat8iona and Repeated Games with Symmetric Information.

Introduction.

24. The Evolution of Cooperation (Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton).

25. This Tax Amnesty Will Work Only Once (Robert J. Barro and Alan Stockman).

26. Fare Warning: How Airlines Trade Price Plans (Asra Q. Nomani).

27. Starting Research Early (Harry V. Roberts and Roman L. Weil).

28. Cartoon: Einstein Discovers that Time is Actually Money (Gary Larson) .

Part Six: Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information.

Introduction.

29. Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma (David M. Kreps, Paul Milgrom, John Roberts, and Robert Wilson)d.

30. Cheap Talk, Coordinating, and Entry (Joseph Farrell).

31. Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family (Nicholas Pileggi).

32. Cartoon: "Say, I Think I See Where We Went Off..." (Ed Fisher) .

Part Seven: Moral Hazard: Hidden Actions.

Introduction.

33. Monopoly Slack and Competitive Rigor: A Simple Model (Joseph Farrell).

34. An Optimal Conviction Policy for Offenses that May Have Been Committed by Accident (Ariel Rubinstein).

35. Bonded Worker is No Guarantee of a Perfect Job (Teri Agins).

36. Cartoon: "Look, Ted! We Get Paid the Same as You but All We re Doing is Standing Around and Flicking our Fingers" (Scott Adams) .

Part Eight: Further Topics in Moral Hazard.

Introduction.

37. Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith).

38. Examples of Plea Bargains (Eric Rasmusen).

39. Unions Say Auto Firms Us Interplant Rivalry to Raise Work Quotas (Dael D. Buss).

40. Cartoon: "Dilbert, I Want You to Manage Wally s Project While He s on Vacation in Aruba" (Scott Adams) .

Part Nine: Adverse Selection.

Introduction.

41. The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism (George A. Akerlof).

42. The Only Game in Town (Walter Begehot (Pseudonym for Jack Treynor).

43. Are Advertisers Ready to Pay Their Viewers (Bart Ziegler).

44. The Creation of New Mathematics: An Application of the Lakatos Heuristic (Philip J. David, Reuben Hersh, and Elena Marchisotto).

45. Cartoon: Frank s Neurosurgery (Gary Larson) .

Part Ten: Mechanism Design in Adverse Selection and in Moral Hazard with Hidden Infor

Product details

• Authors: Rasmusen, E Rasmusen, Eric Rasmusen, Eric (Indiana University) Rasmusen
• Assisted by: Eric Rasmusen (Editor), Eric (Indiana University) Rasmusen (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2001
• EAN: 9780631215578
• ISBN: 978-0-631-21557-8
• No. of pages: 452
• Series: Blackwell Readings in Contempo; Wiley Blackwell Readings for Contemporary Economics
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