PSCI 5108gt

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Game Theory Texts

E. Fink. B. Hume and S. Gates (1998) Game Theory Topics: Incomplete Information, Repeated Games and N-Player Games. Beverely Hills: Sage.

H. S. Bierman and L. Fernandez (1997) Game Theory with Economic Applications. (2nd edition) Addison Wesley Longman.

M. Davis (1997) Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction. Dover.

R. Myerson (1997) Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

D. Baird, R. Gertner, and R. Picker (1994) Game Theory and the Law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

M. Osborne and A. Rubinstein (1994) A Course in Game Theory

D. Fudenberg and J. Tirole (1994) Game Theory Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

P. Ordeshook (1992) A Political Theory Primer. New York: Routledge.

K. Binmore (1992) Fun and Games: A Text on Game Theory. Lexington, MA: DC Heath.

A. Dixit and B. Nalebruff (1991) Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics and Everyday Life. Norton.

D. Kreps (1991) Game Theory and Economic Modelling. Oxford University Press.

P. Ordeshook (1986) Game Theory and Political Theory. New York: Cambridge University Press.

F. Zagare (1984) Game Theory: Concepts and Applications. Beverely Hills: Sage.

M. Shubik (1982) Game Theory in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press.

H. Hamburger (1979) Games as Models of Social Phenomena. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.

R. Luce and H. Raiffa (1957) Game and Decisions. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern (1944) The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

"Spatial" Theories

J. Enelow & M. Hinich (1984) The Spatial Theory of Voting: An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press.

M. Hinich & M. Munger (1997) Analytical Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Behavioral Tests of Analytic Theories

R. Axelrod (1997) The Complexity of Cooperation Princeton: Princeton University Press.

L. Dugatkin and H. Reeve, eds. (1997) Game Theory and Animal Behavior. Oxford University Press

J. Epstein and R. Axtell (1996) Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up. Washington, DC: Brookings. Ledyard, John (1995) "Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Research" in J. H. Kagel and A. E. Roth (eds.) Handbook of Experimental Economics. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 111-194.

G. Tsebelis (1990) Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

R. Axelrod (1984) The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic Books.

T. Schelling (1978) Micromotives and Macrobehavior. New York: W. W. Norton.

E. Ostrom (1990) Governing the Commons. New York: Cambridge University Press.

V. Ostrom and E. Ostrom (1978) "Public Goods and Public Choices"

A. Kahn, J. Hottes, and W. L. Davis (1971) "Cooperation and Optimal Responding in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Effects of Sex and Physical Attractiveness." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 17: 267-279.

"Theoretical Prerequistes/Historical Readings"

"Social Choice Prerequisites"

K. Arrow (1951) Social Choice and Individual Values. New Haven: Yale University Press.

A. Downs (1957) An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row.

D. Black (1958) The Theory of Committees and Elections London: Cambridge University Press.

W. Riker (1962) The Theory of Political Coalitions. New Haven: Yale University Press.

M. Olson (1966) The Logic of Collective Action. New York: Schocken.

R. Farquhuarson (1969) Theory of Voting New Haven: Yale University Press.

A. Sen (1970) Collective Choice and Social Welfare. San Francisco: Holden-Day.

Links to Journals

JSTOR (Source for major Political Science and Economics journals through 1994.)

APSR

AER

Additional journals include...

Games and Economic Behavior

International Journal of Game Theory (Math/Phys Library)

Public Choice (Norlin H35.P33)

Rationality and Society (Norlin H62.A1 R37)