Playing for Real: A Text on Game Theory (Hardcover)

Description

Ken Binmore's previous game theory textbook, Fun and Games (D.C. Heath, 1991), carved out a significant niche in the advanced undergraduate market; it was intellectually serious and more up-to-date than its competitors, but also accessibly written. Its central thesis was that game theory allows us to understand many kinds of interactions between people, a point that Binmore amply demonstrated through a rich range of examples and applications. This replacement for the now out-of-date 1991 textbook retains the entertaining examples, but changes the organization to match how game theory courses are actually taught, making Playing for Real a more versatile text that almost all possible course designs will find easier to use, with less jumping about than before. In addition, the problem sections, already used as a reference by many teachers, have become even more clever and varied, without becoming too technical. Playing for Real will sell into advanced undergraduate courses in game theory, primarily those in economics, but also courses in the social sciences, and serve as a reference for economists.
 

《Playing for Real》是Ken Binmore的新一本博弈論教科書，他之前的教科書《Fun and Games》（D.C. Heath, 1991）在高年級本科市場上佔有重要地位；它在學術上嚴謹且比競爭對手更為時新，同時寫作風格也容易理解。其核心論點是博弈論能夠幫助我們理解人與人之間的各種互動，Binmore通過豐富的例子和應用充分證明了這一點。這本新教科書保留了有趣的例子，但重新組織了內容，以符合實際教學中的博弈論課程，使《Playing for Real》成為一本更具靈活性的教材，幾乎適用於所有可能的課程設計，比以前更容易使用，不再需要頻繁跳躍。此外，問題部分已經成為許多教師的參考資料，更加巧妙和多樣化，但不會過於技術性。《Playing for Real》將主要用於博弈論的高年級本科課程，尤其是經濟學課程，同時也適用於社會科學課程，並可作為經濟學家的參考資料。