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GAME THEORY
A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy
(3rd Edition)
Roger A McCain
Drexel University, USA
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McCain, Roger A. Game theory : a nontechnical introduction to the analysis of strategy / by Roger A McCain
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Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
vii
Chapter 1
Conflict, Strategy, and Games
Chapter 2
Some Foundations
21
Chapter 3
Dominant Strategies and Social Dilemmas
43
Chapter 4
Nash Equilibrium and Rationalizable Strategies
63
Chapter 5
Games with Two or More Nash Equilibria
89
Chapter 6
Duopoly Strategies and Prices
107
Chapter 7
Three-Person Games
135
Chapter 8
Probability and Game Theory
157
Chapter 9
Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibria
183
Chapter 10
N-Person Games
207
Chapter 11
Further Topics on Games in Normal Form
235
Chapter 12
Sequential Games
267
Chapter 13
Imbedded Games
297
Chapter 14
Repeated Play
325
Chapter 15
Indefinitely Repeated Play
347
Chapter 16
Elements of Cooperative Games
375
Chapter 17
Bargaining
413
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Chapter 18
Contents
Games, Experiments and Behavioral
Game Theory
447
Chapter 19
Evolution and Adaptive Learning
477
Chapter 20
Voting Games
503
Chapter 21
Auctions
529
Chapter 22
Game Theory, Law and Social Mechanism
Design
555
Name and Subject Index
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