The World the Game Theorists Made

by Paul Erickson

In recent decades game theory--the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals--has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory's ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022609717X
• ISBN13: 9780226097176
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"