This paper is a brief history of game theory with its main theme being the nature of the decision makers assumed in the various stages of its historical development. It demonstrates that changes in the "image of man" nourished the developments of what many believe to be progress in game theory....

Chapter 1. Instead of an introduction - Manfred on his 75th Birthday (Heinz Kurz) -- Part I. Economics and Philosophy -- Chapter 2. Three Types of Dramatic Irony (Timo Airaksinen) -- Chapter 3. Defence is of Much More Importance than Opulence: Adam Smith on the Political Economy of War (Heinz...

This paper analyzes mediation as a signal. Starting from a stylized case, a game theoretical model of one-sided incomplete information, taken from Cho and Kreps (1987), is applied to discuss strategic effects of mediation. It turns out that to reject mediation can be interpreted as a "negative...

There is an ongoing discussion about the relationship of power and preferences: Is power reflected in what the agents can do and what they want to do, or, alternatively, are preferences and power two separate dimensions of determining the outcome of decisionmaking? In the latter case...