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The World the Game Theorists Made

Paperback • 2015 • English

The World the Game Theorists Made

By Paul Erickson

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About the book

In recent decades game theory-the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals-has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory's ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretiv...Show more

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9780226097176

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

The World the Game Theorists Made

Format

Paperback

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