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  Playing for Real: A Text on Game Theory (Hardback) By (author) Ken Binmore

  

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  Short Description for Playing for RealThis book is a light-hearted introduction to game theory suitable for advanced undergraduate students or beginning graduate students. It aims to answer three questions. What is game theory? How is game theory applied? Why is game theory right? It is thought to be the only book that tackles all three questions seriously without getting heavily mathematical.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Published: 21 June 2007
  • Format: Hardback 652 pages
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  • Categories: Economics | Economic Theory & Philosophy | Game Theory | Applied Mathematics
  • ISBN 13: 9780195300574 ISBN 10: 0195300572
  • Sales rank: 391,826

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• 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 This replacement for the now out-of-date 1991 textbook retains the entertaining examples, but changes the organization to match how game theory courses are actually taught, making Playing for Real a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.