ABSTRACT

Game Theory - the formal modelling of conflict and cooperation - first emerged as a recognized field with a publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour in 1944. Since then, game-theoretic thinking about choice of strategies and the interdependence of people's actions has influenced all the social s

chapter 1|17 pages

INTRODUCTION

Defining game theory and its history

chapter 2|17 pages

STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCE

Cournot and Duopoly

chapter 3|19 pages

STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCE

Cournot’s heirs and asymmetry

chapter 4|30 pages

STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCE

Bilateral monopoly

chapter 5|20 pages

LEWIS CARROLL AND THE GAME OF POLITICS

chapter 6|16 pages

EARLY MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF CONFLICT