文档介绍:Does Game Theory Work?
Economic Learning and Social Evolution
General Editor
Ken Binmore, Director of the Economic Learning and Social Evolution
Centre, University College London.
1. Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection, Larry Samuelson, 1997
2. The Theory of Learning in Games, Drew Fudenberg and David K.
Levine, 1998
3. Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 2: Just Playing, Ken
Binmore, 1998
4. Social Dynamics, Steven N. Durlauf and H. Peyton Young, editors,
2001
5. Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games, Ross Cressman,
2003
6. Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of
Cooperation in Economic Life, Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert
Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, editors, 2004
7. Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge, Ken Binmore,
2006
Does Game Theory Work?
The Bargaining Challenge
Ken Binmore
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Binmore, K. G., 1940–
Does game theory work? : the bargaining challenge / Ken Binmore.
p. cm. —(Economic learning and social evolution ; 7)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Getting to equilibrium? — Which equilibrium? — The ultimatum game —
Inequity aversion? — Outside options — Forced breakdo