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Re: Game Theory

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Any recommendations for the best online course on game theory?

Unfortunately, "Game Theory" is a huge field. If you want to limit things down to just "Algorithmic Game Theory" there are tons of courses and resources out there...

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/teaching/cgt/

http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~vetta/CS764.dir/

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs684/2004sp/

http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/f04/364a.html

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/COURSE/agt-fkn.html

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/games/cs294.html

http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs455/

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bromille/AGT/index.html

http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall06/cps296.2/

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/agta/

Re: Game Theory

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Any recommendations for the best online course on game theory?

Not exactly an "online course", but these notes (used for an undergrad course on games) I found quite readable: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/games/

I can recommend the book 'A Course in Game Theory' by Ariel Rubinstein and Martin J. Osborne . You'll probably need some mathematical and economic background knowledge to gain the most out of it. Note that it is more abstract than illustrative though it is aimed at a beginner in Game Theory.

The book ist free to download after a simple registration at http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/books.html

Re: Game Theory

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some cool subtopics-

matching theory: how to match kidney donors with patients? how to match kids with public schools?

social choice theory: how does the voting mechanism affect the outcome? how much weight should different parties have? how can voting mechanisms be "gamed"?

Re: Game Theory

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Any recommendations for the best online course on game theory?

I don't know about best, but there are a couple of MOOCs on coursera titled "Competitive strategy" and "Advanced competitive strategy" by Tobias Kretschmer of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. They deal with with game theory from a business point of view and are pretty good starting point.

Re: Game Theory

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not exactly an "online course", but these notes (used for an undergrad course on games) I found quite readable: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/games/

I can recommend the book 'A Course in Game Theory' by Ariel Rubinstein and Martin J. Osborne . You'll probably need some mathematical and economic background knowledge to gain the most out of it. Note that it is more abstract than illustrative though it is aimed at a beginner in Game Theory. The book ist free to download after a simple registration at http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/books.html

That's a good book, but a bit advanced. A little bit easier is Osborne's Introduction to Game Theory.

On the heavier side, Game Theory by Tirole and Fudenberg is used in a lot of graduate economics programs.

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