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Toward a history of game theory

Author: E Roy Weintraub
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
Series: History of political economy., Annual supplement ;, 1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Toward a history of game theory.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1992
(OCoLC)654749296
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: E Roy Weintraub
ISBN: 0822312530 9780822312536
OCLC Number: 27702265
Description: vi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The early history of the theory of strategic games from Waldegrave 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 Morgenstern 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 : early connections / Robin E. Rider --
Game theory and experimental economics : beginnings and early influences / Vernon L. Smith.
Series Title: History of political economy., Annual supplement ;, 1992.
Responsibility: edited by E. Roy Weintraub.

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