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Title: Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice
Author: Pajit K. Dutta
Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 1999
ISBN: 0262041693
Abstract: Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science, and the law. Strategies and Games grew out of Prajit Dutta's experience teaching a course in game theory over the last six years at Columbia University. The book is divided into three parts: Strategic Form Games and Their Applications, Extensive Form Games and Their Applications, and Asymmetric Information Games and Their Applications. The theoretical topics include dominance solutions, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, subgame perfect equilibrium, repeated games, dynamic games, Bayes-Nash equilibrium, mechanism design, auction theory, and signaling. An appendix presents a thorough discussion of single-agent decision theory, as well as the optimization and probability theory required for the course. Every chapter that introduces a new theoretical concept opens with examples and ends with a case study. Case studies include Global Warming and the Internet, Poison Pills, Treasury Bill Auctions, and Final Jeopardy. Each part of the book also contains several chapter-length applications including Bankruptcy Law, the NASDAQ market, OPEC, and the Commons problem. This is also the first text to provide a detailed analysis of dynamic strategic interaction.

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                  students. This text is the first to provide both a
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                  economics, but also in business, political science,
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                  book is divided into three parts: Strategic Form
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                  backward induction, subgame perfect equilibrium,
                  repeated games, dynamic games, Bayes-Nash
                  equilibrium, mechanism design, auction theory, and
                  signaling. An appendix presents a thorough
                  discussion of single-agent decision theory, as well
                  as the optimization and probability theory required
                  for the course. Every chapter that introduces a new
                  theoretical concept opens with examples and ends
                  with a case study. Case studies include Global
                  Warming and the Internet, Poison Pills, Treasury
                  Bill Auctions, and Final Jeopardy. Each part of the
                  book also contains several chapter-length
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