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Game Theory for Political Scientists
James D. Morrow
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Description for Game Theory for Political Scientists
Hardback. Adapting game theory to political analysis, this book uses a minimum of mathematics to teach the essentials of game theory and contains problems and their solutions suitable for graduate students in various branches of political science. It focuses on noncooperative game theory and its application to international relations. Num Pages: 400 pages, 127 figs. 4 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; PBUD; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 746.
Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. James Morrow's book is the first to provide a standard text adapting contemporary game theory to political analysis. It uses a minimum of mathematics to teach the essentials of game theory and contains problems and their ... Read more
Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its usefulness in political science has been underappreciated, in part because of the technical difficulty of the methods developed by economists. James Morrow's book is the first to provide a standard text adapting contemporary game theory to political analysis. It uses a minimum of mathematics to teach the essentials of game theory and contains problems and their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
646
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
767g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691034300
SKU
V9780691034300
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About James D. Morrow
James D. Morrow is Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
Reviews for Game Theory for Political Scientists
"James Morrow's superb book provides the best account of ideas from game theory tailored to the interests of political scientists, which is currently available."
The Times Higher Education Supplement
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