Beautiful Game Theory How Soccer Can Help Economics

"A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can illuminate many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful Game Theory is the first book that uses soccer to test economic theories and document novel human behavior.In this brilliant and entertaining book, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta illuminates economics throughthe world's most popular sport. He offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and microeconomics, covering topics such as mixed strategies, discrimination, incentives, and human preferences. He also looks at finance, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Soccer provides rich data sets and environments that shed light on universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways.Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports enthusiasts, Beautiful Game Theory is the first book to show what soccer can do for economics"--

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ignatio Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, Palacios-Huerta Ignacio
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 13.06.2014
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro
• EAN: 9780691144023
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14402-3
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Categorie: Experiment, competition, neuroimaging, Investment, SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer, Economics, Incentive, Behavioral Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Psychology, MATHEMATICS / Game Theory, stock market, income, Employment, ethnic group, Economic theory & philosophy, Reinforcement Learning, Customer, Racism, Scientist, decision-making, probability, game theory, Rationality, Experimental Economics, Suicide Attack, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer), Microeconomics, Economic theory and philosophy, Economist, Deloitte, Human behavior, standard deviation, Attendance, participant, inference, randomization, Prediction, Estimation, functional magnetic resonance imaging, share price, statistical significance, vandalism, determinant, Result, human subject research, covariate, Electroencephalography, Trading Strategy, Null Hypothesis, Quantity, Trade-off, first book, Overreaction, coefficient, Percentage point, Dummy variable (statistics), Standard error, Percentage, Test statistic, Marginal Cost, Efficient-market hypothesis, Outcome (game theory), Market participant, Field experiment, Random sequence, Gaussian (software), Equating, Point system (driving), Order book (trading), zero-sum game, Matching Pennies, Pearson's chi-squared test, Betfair, Urrutia, Prendergast