Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict.

MYERSON, Roger B.

$225.00

Item Number: 74034

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

First edition of this classic introductory work on game theory. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards. Inscribed by Roger B. Myerson on the title page. In 2007, Myerson was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for “having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.” In fine condition.

Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict is Myerson's introductory text which provides a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts, results, and methodological principles of noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Myerson introduces, clarifies, and synthesizes the extraordinary advances made in the subject over the past fifteen years, presents an overview of decision theory, and comprehensively reviews the development of the fundamental models: games in extensive form and strategic form, and Bayesian games with incomplete information.