A Course in Game Theory presents the main ideas of game theory at a level suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, emphasizing the theory's foundations and interpretations of its basic concepts. The authors provide precise definitions and full proofs of results, sacrificing...

This paper addresses a paradoxical game theoretic example which is closely related to the coordinated attack problem. Two players have to play one of two possible coordination games. Only one of them receives information about the coordination game to be played. It is shown that even if a large...

In the jungle, power and coercion govern the exchange of resources. We study a simple, stylised model of the jungle that mirrors an exchange economy. We define the notion of jungle equilibrium and demonstrate that a number of standard results of competitive markets hold in the jungle. Copyright...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART 1 ECONOMICS OF LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER 0 ECONOMICS AND LANGUAGE -- 0.1 Economics and language -- 0.2 Outline of the lectures -- 0.3 One more personal comment -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1 CHOOSING THE SEMANTIC PROPERTIES...