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Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life

Gintis, Herbert (contributor); Bowles, Samuel (contributor); … - The MIT Press

of cooperation in humans and nonhuman primates, modeling and testing strong reciprocity in economic scenarios, and … that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence … implications of this explanation for cooperation. Chapter authors in the remaining parts of the book discuss the behavioral ecology …

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The New Industrial Organization: Market Forces and Strategic Behavior

Jacquemin, Alexis - The MIT Press

allied issues as evolutionary economics, natural selection, and adaptation; game-theoretic models of strategic behavior; and …

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Competitive Strategy: Options and Games

Chevalier-Roignant, Benoit; Trigeorgis, Lenos - The MIT Press

commitment and flexibility. They can stake a claim by making a large capital investment today, influencing their rivals' behavior …

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Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics

Weber, Thomas A. - The MIT Press

This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of optimal control theory for...

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Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 1: Playing Fair

Binmore, Ken - The MIT Press

weaknesses in other analyses of social cooperation and coordination, such as those offered by Rousseau, Kant, Gauthier, and …

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Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge

Binmore, Ken - The MIT Press

the laboratory, but Binmore and other pioneers established that game theory can often predict the behavior of experienced … players very well in favorable laboratory settings. The case of human bargaining behavior is particularly challenging for game … theory. Everyone agrees that human behavior in real-life bargaining situations is governed at least partly by considerations …

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Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games

Cressman, Ross - The MIT Press

Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions … extensive form models of behavior and for the further theoretical study of extensive form evolutionary games. …

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Collected Papers - Vol. 1

Aumann, Robert J. - The MIT Press

Robert Aumann's groundbreaking career in game theory has spanned over 35 years. These two volumes provide convenient access to all of his major research--from his doctoral dissertation in 1956 to papers as recent as January 1995. Threaded through all of Aumann's work (symbolized in his thesis on...

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Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools

Vives, Xavier - The MIT Press

The "oligopoly problem"--the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors--is one of the more persistent problems in the history of economic thought. In this book Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing....

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Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice

Dutta, Prajit K. - The MIT Press

Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science,...

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