1st Edition

Game Theory Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

Edited By Yanis Varoufakis
    1640 Pages
    by Routledge

    Game theory is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of the social sciences. The articles gathered here chart the intellectual history of game theory from its place in the Enlightenment tradition, through the explosion of literature in the late 1970s, to issues of current and emerging debates.
    This extensively indexed set will be a valuable reference tool to researchers in sociology and politics, as well as economics.

    Volume I: Foundations
    Precursors Pioneers of Game Theory Pioneers of Modern Bargaining Theory
    Volume II: Refinements
    Nash's Project Embellished with (Bayesian) Uncertainty Dynamic Games Dynamic Bargaining Evolutionary Games Psychological Games
    Volume III
    Part I: Economic Applications
    Oligopolistic Games Auctions Macroeconomic Games General Equilibrium and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
    Part II: Game Theory and the Social Sciences
    Political Science Analytical Marxism Sociology and Anthropology
    Volume IV: Discontents
    The Trouble with Consistently Aligned Beliefs The Problem With Backward Induction The Problem with Bargaining Solutions Philosophical Queries