In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes colle…
The presented work combines two areas of research: cooperative game theory and lot size optimization. One of the most essential problems in cooperations is to allocate cooperative profits or costs among the partners. The core is a well known method from cooperative game theory t…
Why do we often willingly trust strangers or cooperate with them even if those actions leave us vulnerable to exploitation? This book describes the economic experiments that explore notions of fairness, altruism and trust in economic transactions. It is suitable for students in …
Game theory: a playful introduction
by Kent, Deborah A., DeVos, Matt
fromStudent mathematical library
'For most of the 20th century economists focused on competition as the driving force of the modern capitalist economy. In his thoughtful and readable book, Roger A. McCain offers a different frame of reference for economists. Using game theory's distinction between cooperative a…
