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Summary: Gibbons The Great....
Review: After living through a semester of Andy Mas-Collell's "one-ton-book-of-fun" it has been a joy to read Gibbons terrific introductory Game Theory text. A textbook that even non-economists might enjoy. Nice examples, good pace, fun stuff.
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Summary: Gibbons The Great....
Review: After living through a semester of Andy Mas-Collell's "one-ton-book-of-fun" it has been a joy to read Gibbons terrific introductory Game Theory text. A textbook that even non-economists might enjoy. Nice examples, good pace, fun stuff.
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Summary: The Best Book for Learning Applied Game Theory
Review: For the advanced student with some knowledge of basic game theory, this is the best book on applications. There is really a rather amazing array of examples covered and worked out in detail on some major topics of noncooperative game theory -- static and dynamic games, with complete and incomplete information. Gibbons gets right down to the key moving parts of the models he presents and in the process provides great examples of what can be done with game theory.This is not, however, the best book as an introduction to pure game theory, at any level (and obviously isn't meant to be). If you use it that way you may be disappointed. While it does cover the theory it uses, and pretty rigorously at that, it cannot by its nature get deep enough into the guts of equilibrium concepts and refinements for that purpose. If it's used in conjunction with a pure game theory book, particularly Myerson, it will provide an excellent foundation for graduate students in social science, particularly economics. In fact it can be a very useful tool when using a more theoretically oriented book to get a better idea of what the basic concepts are really all about. (The discussion of sequential equilibrium and the intuitive criterion is especially good for building intuition.)
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Summary: Great Little Book- for Economists
Review: Gibbons makes learning game theory easy. This book carefully explains both how to solve and the ideas behind game theoretic models. This enables students to better see how the math applies to how people vie in markets. It also makes it accessable to students who do not already know a great deal of math. There is alot more to game theory that what you see in this book. This book covers the concepts all should start with, no matter where you end up heading with game theory.
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Summary: Good. But Buy It Only If Serious
Review: I bought this book hoping to find a lesson on game theory and applied economics. While I studied both in college, I was never the strongest of mathematicians and as a result I found this book a bit technical. While I understand the Author was writing for perhaps a different audience, I have had sufficient exposure to both calculus and econometrics that I feel I should not have felt lost at times. This is not the best book for someone looking for an introductory look at game theory. In addition, the book is really not oriented toward anyone that is not a serious practitioner or not seeking to really crack the math. As a result, unless you are serious, I would discourage you from buying this book.
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Summary: Simply, a great book
Review: I read this book for my MSc course in Economics. I found it very straightforward and to the point. If you can handle this book, consider yourself prepared to go into deeper game theory books such as Jean Tirole's Game Theory, among others. The organisation of the book is quite simple and logic, and makes you understand the differences between games in a very easy manner. This is a must read book for every serious economist.
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Summary: Simply, a great book
Review: I read this book for my MSc course in Economics. I found it very straightforward and to the point. If you can handle this book, consider yourself prepared to go into deeper game theory books such as Jean Tirole's Game Theory, among others. The organisation of the book is quite simple and logic, and makes you understand the differences between games in a very easy manner. This is a must read book for every serious economist.
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Summary: Fairly good, but not the best one...
Review: If you are looking for an introductory book on game theory maybe this is not the best pick. Even though the mathematical approach is really easy, other books, which have been published later, are much easier to grasp the sometimes complicated concepts...I deeply suggest readers to buy either Gardner or Bierman, Fernandez before spending their money on this book.
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Summary: Good introduction to Game Theory
Review: It provides good introduction and basic concepts in Game Theory. Lots of interesting classical examples are given. It is a must for all beginners with mathematic background.
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Summary: Clealy the best game theory book till now.
Review: Mas-Collel et alia, Fudenberg & Tirole, Myerson Rubinstein & Osborne have to do a lot of work to write a Game theory book as good as this one!!. Only Kreps and perhaps Rasmusen do not write as obscure and incomptehensible as the above cited authors. Anyway, congratulations Robert, you beat them all!!
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