Toward a history of game theory
By: edited by E. Roy Weintraub
Contributors: Weintraub, E. Roy
Series: Annual supplement to History of Political Economy -- v. 24 (1992); History of political economy -- 1992
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Game theory -- History
Description: Annual supplement to Volume 24, History of Political Economy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The early history of the theory of strategic games from Waldgrave to Borel / Robert W. Dimand and Mary Ann Dimand; title: Creating a context for game theory / Robert J. Leonard; title: New insights into the collaboration between John von Neumann and Oskar Morganstern on the Theory of games and economic behavior / Urs Rellstab; title: Oskar Morgenstern's contribution to the development of the theory of games / Andrew Schotter; title: What were von Neumann and Morgenstern trying to accomplish? / Philip Mirowski; title: Game theory at Princeton, 1949-1955 : a personal reminiscence / Martin Shubik; title: Game theory at the University of Michigan, 1948-1952 / Howard Raiffa; title: Mathematizing social science in the 1950s : the early development and diffusion of game theory / Angela M. O'Rand; title: The entry of game theory into political science / William H. Riker; title: Operations research and game theory / Robin E. Rider; title: Game theory and experimental economics : beginnings and early influences / Vernon L. Smith