Games of Strategy is beloved by students and instructors alike for its flexible organisation, focus on problem-solving and engaging and accessible examples from diverse fields, like political science, biology and business. The completely revised Fifth Edition adds the work of David McAdams, especially in the areas of market design and auction theory, and provides new insights into diverse applications, such as billion-dollar buy-outs, job offer negotiation, the Cuban Missile Crisis and collusion in the school milk market.
PART I: INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Ch 1 Basic Ideas and Examples
Ch 2 How to Think about Strategic Games
PART II: CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES
Ch 3 Games with Sequential Moves
Ch 4 Simultaneous-Move Games: Discrete Strategies
Ch 5 Simultaneous-Move Games: Continuous Strategies, Discussion, and Evidence
Ch 6 Combining Sequential and Simultaneous Moves
Ch 7 Simultaneous-Move Games: Mixed Strategies
PART III: SOME BROAD CLASSES OF STRATEGIES AND GAMES
Ch 8 Strategic Moves
Ch 9 Uncertainty and Information
Ch10 The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Repeated Games
Ch11 Collective-Action Games
Ch12 Evolutionary Games
PART IV: APPLICATIONS TO SPECIFIC STRATEGIC SITUATIONS
Ch13 Brinkmanship: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Ch14 Design of Incentives
Ch15 Auctions, Bidding Strategy, and Auction Design
Ch16 Strategy and Voting
Ch17 Bargaining
作者：Avinash K. Dixit
現職：Princeton University
作者：Susan Skeath
現職：Wellesley College
作者：David McAdams
現職：Duke University Fuqua School of Business