Game Theory and Strategy

Table of Contents

Part I. Two-Person Zero-Sum Games:
1. The nature of games
2. Matrix games: dominance and saddle points
3. Matrix games: mixed strategies
4. Application to anthropology: Jamaican fishing
5. Application to warfare: guerillas, police, and missiles
6. Application to philosophy: Newcomb's problem and free will
7. Game trees
8. Application to business: competitive decision making
9. Utility theory
10. Games against nature
Part II. Two-Person Non-Zero-Sum Games:
11. Nash equilibria and non-cooperative solutions
12. The prisoner's dilemma
13. Application to social psychology: trust, suspicion, and the F-Scale
14. Strategic moves
15. Application to biology: evolutionarily stable strategies
16. The Nash arbitration scheme and cooperative solutions
17. Application to business: management-labor arbitration
18. Application to economics: the duopoly problem
Part III. N-Person Games:
19. An introduction to N-Person games
20. Applications to politics: strategic voting
21. N-Person prisoner's dilemma
22. Application to athletics: prisoner's dilemma and the football draft
23. Imputations, domination, and stable set
24. Application to anthropology: pathan organization
25. The core
26. The shapley value
27. Application to politics: the Shapley-Shubik power index
28. Application to politics: the Banzhaf index and the Canadian constitution
29. Bargaining sets
30. Application to politics: parliamentary coalitions
31. The nucleolus and the Gately point
32. Application to economics: cost allocations in India
33. The value of game theory.