Game Theory Evolving

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Challenging mathematical approach for game theory.The book includes Bayes Rule ,adverse selection and role of information , bargaining, decision problem and so on.Large number of subjects related to the topic.If you have enough time and patience ,the book will be very helpful guidance to your life

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Summary: 500 pages for big game
Review: Challenging mathematical approach for game theory.The book includes Bayes Rule ,adverse selection and role of information , bargaining, decision problem and so on.Large number of subjects related to the topic.If you have enough time and patience ,the book will be very helpful guidance to your life

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Summary: The first problem-oriented book in Game Theory
Review: Game Theory has to be taught with a strong enphasis on the developing the problem solving capabilities of the students, Nevertheless, the books you can find out there are very strong in the math and the theory but weak, incomplete, and poor in the problems. This is the first book I could find where the enphasis is made on the problems and on developing the capacities of the reader/student in the field, not just for theoretical purposes, where problems are more than useful, but also in the empirical aplications of game theory. Theory in this book emerges from the problems since all the chapters are developed as problems in themselves. It has also the probably the first extensive treatment in a textbook of evolutionary game theory. Given that this new field has become one of extensive research in the field lately, this becomes a major contribution to the teaching of game theory. And the best part is that is fun to read!

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Summary: Gintis and Game Theory
Review: Gintis is not a well-known popular economist, but he deserves wider readership; he has been carefully analysing and dissecting orthodox economic theory and contemporary capitalism for some years with some interesting results. He is actually one of those rare economists, who actually knows how to use Mathematics in an appropriate fashion.This bookis a great introduction to Game Theory and its evolving developments, easily accessible to a wide number of non-economists, and will certainly be of interest to economists and sociologists. Definitely worth reading!

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Summary: Basic toolkit for the evolutionary study of social behavior
Review: Herb Gintis is an economist with a strong interest in the assumptions we make about human rationality in our social, political, and economic theories. He has produced a remarkable and deceptively innovative text that could productively be used in a broad range of fields.

The topic of game theory is interesting to many people because it describes interaction between competitors, presumably helping us pick the best strategy if the circumstances are well enough understood. We might wonder whether the circumstances are well enough understood in daily life to apply the methods of game theory to our own choices, since it usually to assume that we are rational competitors trying to maximize our own gain.

Game Theory Evolving addresses this fascinating question not from a theoretical perspective so much as giving the reader the tools for investigating it themselves in two distinct but complementary ways.

First, it provides practical problem-oriented chapters for learning the principles and thinking in terms of game theoretic methods. The problems are not the usual textbook "who cares, anyway ?" type. Rather they are fun and interesting to solve and often lead to direct insights into real situations.

Second, it extends game theory into the realm of evolutionary thinking, so we not only understand strategic action but we get some deeper insight into how our historical needs shaped our behavior and even our thought processes. Game theory may help explain how we learned to cooperate and why under some conditions we tend to punish cheaters and treat people fairly even though it provides no apparent advantage to us.

Disguised as a lowly academic textbook, Game Theory Evolving is actually a basic toolkit, a passport into the remarkable modern study of evolutionary thinking about human nature, through a practical grounding in the mathematical techniques that have the potential to join our understanding of social sciences and biology.

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Summary: Read this book if you want to learn game theory
Review: My all time favorite on Game Theory. Excellent book! Learn standard and evolutionary game theory from this book. With very recent examples from the literature...

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Summary: The Best Book for Self-study
Review: This book is not for babies, and you cannot simply read it like a novel. But for a self-motivated person who is curious about game theory, it is without parallel! The explanations are complete but not belabored, and the problems are graded from simple to very challenging. The more challenging problems are solved in the back of the book--about a third of the book is devoted to anwswers! Try it--you'll like it.

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Summary: Exciting Introduction by a Creative Behavioral Scientist
Review: This book makes game theory available to all behavioral scientists, including biologists, economists, and others interested in how humans and animals behave and interact. Each chapter begins at a quite elementary level, and advances a a leisurely pace. The user can stop and go on to the next chapter at his or her will. There are answers to many of the problems, especially the more challenging ones, in the last third of the book.

This is a very creative endeavor, written by someone who obviously loves the material and want others to love, and use, game theory as well. It is not written for theorists, but rather for prospective users, which accounts for the strong problem orientation. Anyone who thinks they can master game theory without doing LOTS of problems is deluding him or herself. Dive in!

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Summary: Be warned!
Review: This is not a textbook! Instead, this book is merely a collection of problems, only some of which have solutions. As such, I did not find this to be a very good way to learn the material for the first time. Perhaps it is good as a supplement once you have already learned the material from another source.

If I had known, I would not have bought this book.