Written for majors courses in economics, business, political science, and international relations, but accessible to students across the undergraduate spectrum, Joseph Harrington’s innovative textbook makes the tools and applications of game theory and strategic reasoning both fascinating and easy to understand. Each chapter focuses a specific strategic situation as a way of introducing core concepts informally at first, then more fully, with a minimum of mathematics. At the heart of the book is a diverse collection of strategic scenarios, not only from business and politics, but from history, fiction, sports, and everyday life as well. With this approach, students don’t just learn clever answers to puzzles, but instead acquire genuine insights into human behavior.
PART 1 Constructing A Game
1 Introduction to Strategic Reasoning
2. Building a Model of a Strategic Situation
PART 2 Strategic Form Games
3. Eliminating the Impossible: Solving a Game when Rationality Is Common Knowledge
4. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete Games with Two or Three Players
5. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Discrete n-Player Games
6. Stable Play: Nash Equilibria in Continuous Games
7. Keep ’Em Guessing: Randomized Strategies
PART 3 Extensive Form Games
8. Taking Turns: Sequential Games with Perfect Information
9. Taking Turns in the Dark: Sequential Games with Imperfect Information
PART 4 Games of Incomplete Information
10. I Know Something You Don’t Know: Games with Private Information
11. What You Do Tells Me Who You Are: Signaling Games
12. Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them: Cheap Talk Games
PART 5 Repeated Games
13. Playing Forever: Repeated Interaction with Infinitely Lived Players
14. Cooperation and Reputation: Applications of Repeated Interaction with Infinitely Lived Player
15. Interaction in Infinitely Lived Institutions
PART 6 Evolutionary Game Theory
16. Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies
17. Evolutionary Game Theory and Biology: Replicator Dynamics
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