Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition (Princeton Classic Editions)

by John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern

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This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences.

  • ISBN10 1777257301
  • ISBN13 9781777257309
  • Publish Date 12 June 2020 (first published 21 May 1953)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Imprint Golden Keys Success
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 660
  • Language English