Robert V. Dodge

Schelling's Game Theory (eBook, PDF)

How to Make Decisions

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling taught a course in game theory and rational choice to advanced students and government officials for 45 years. In this book, Robert Dodge provides in language for a broad audience the concepts that Schelling taught. Armed with Schelling's understanding of game theory methods and his approaches to problems, the general reader can improve daily decision making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199857210
• Artikelnr.: 38141506

Autorenporträt

Robert V. Dodge is author of The Strategist: The Life and Times of Thomas Schelling and retired from 23 years of teaching at the Singapore American School.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Thomas C. Schelling
* Chapter I Thomas Schelling and His Signature Course on Strategic
Thinking
* Part One: The Schelling Approach to Strategic Thinking and
Decision-Making
* Chapter 2 Introduction to Strategic Thought
* Chapter 3 Vicarious Thinking
* Chapter 4 Game Theory
* Chapter 5 The Two-By-Two Matrix
* Part Two: Strategies and Tactics
* Chapter 6 Strategies Defined and Illustrated
* Chapter 7 Tactics
* Chapter 8 Self-Command
* Part Three: Models as Metaphors For What Decisions Do
* Chapter 9 Interaction Models
* Chapter 10 The Dollar Auction
* Chapter 11 Musical Chairs and Inescapable Mathematics
* Part Four: The Prisoner's Dilemma, Competition and Cooperation
* Chapter 12 The Prisoner's Dilemma
* Chapter 13 Cooperation
* Chapter 14 Coordination
* Part Five: Individual Decisions and Group Agreement
* Chapter 15 Collective Choice and Voting
* Chapter 16 The Commons and Fair Division
* Chapter 17 Case Study, Overcoming Professional Basketball's Commons
Dilemma:
* The Phil Jackson Story
* Part Six: Decisions that Mix and Sort Populations, Decisions Based on
* Randomization
* Chapter 18 Critical Mass and Tipping
* Chapter 19 Individual Decisions and Group Outcomes
* Chapter 20 Randomization in Decision-Making
* Part Seven: Case Study and Review
* Chapter 21 Case Study, The Cuban Missile Crisis: Analysis and Review