Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

Von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern

740 pages, parution le 02/07/2004

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This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences.

This sixtieth anniversary edition includes not only the original text but also an introduction by Harold Kuhn, an afterword by Ariel Rubinstein, and reviews and articles on the book that appeared at the time of its original publication in the New York Times, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and a variety of other publications. Together, these writings provide readers a matchless opportunity to more fully appreciate a work whose influence will yet resound for generations to come.

L'auteur - Oskar Morgenstern

Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977) taught at the University of Vienna and directed the Austrian Institute of Business Cycle Research before settling in the United States in 1938. There he joined the faculty of Princeton University, eventually becoming a professor and from 1948 directing its econometric research program. He advised the United States government on a wide variety of subjects. Though most famous for the book he co-authored with von Neumann, Morgenstern was also widely known for his skepticism about economic measurement, as reflected in one of his many other books, On the Accuracy of Economic Observations (Princeton).

Sommaire

Formulation Of The Economic Problem
General Formal Description Of Games Of Strategy
Zero-Sum Two-Person Games: Theory
Zero-Sum Two-Person Games: Examples
Zero-Sum Three-Person Games
Formulation Of The General Theory: Zero-Sum N-Person Games
Chapter Vii: Zero-Sum Four-Person Games
Some Remarks Concerning N [Equal To Or Greater Than] 5 Participants
Composition And Decomposition Of Games
Composition And Decomposition
Simple Games
General Non-Zero-Sum Games
Extension Of The Concepts Of Domination And Solution
Appendix: The Axiomatic Treatment Of Utility

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Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern
Parution	02/07/2004
Nb. de pages	740
Format	16,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1210g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691119939
ISBN13	978-0-691-11993-9