Title: Toward a history of game theory /
Authors: Weintraub, E. Roy.
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Game theory History.
Abstract: Annual supplement to Volume 24, History of Political Economy.
Contents: The early history of the theory of strategic games from Waldgrave to Borel / Robert W. Dimand and Mary Ann Dimand -- Creating a context for game theory / Robert J. Leonard -- New insights into the collaboration between John von Neumann and Oskar Morganstern on the Theory of games and economic behavior / Urs Rellstab -- Oskar Morgenstern's contribution to the development of the theory of games / Andrew Schotter -- What were von Neumann and Morgenstern trying to accomplish? / Philip Mirowski -- Game theory at Princeton, 1949-1955 : a personal reminiscence / Martin Shubik -- Game theory at the University of Michigan, 1948-1952 / Howard Raiffa -- Mathematizing social science in the 1950s : the early development and diffusion of game theory / Angela M. O'Rand -- The entry of game theory into political science / William H. Riker -- Operations research and game theory / Robin E. Rider -- Game theory and experimental economics : beginnings and early influences / Vernon L. Smith.