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Game Theory: Open Access textbook

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Post by dombili »

tramGG wrote: post #2

I'm looking to learn Game Theory. Anyone with knowledge in this space have good additional recommendations?

Thinking Strategically by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff is a fantastic way to start. You can pick it up without any prior knowledge of game theory.

I'd also recommend Ken Binmore's Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction.

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tramGG wrote: post #2

I'm looking to learn Game Theory. Anyone with knowledge in this space have good additional recommendations?

The last two lectures in the The Georgia Tech Machine Learning course on Udacity cover some basics of Game Theory. Just skip ahead, the game theory part is mostly self-contained. https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning--ud262 The Reinforcement Learning course includes some of the same (exactly the same) game theory content and then adds an additional lecture on further topics in game theory https://www.udacity.com/course/reinforcement-learning--ud600 Again, skip to the last couple lectures.

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Post by paultopia »

tramGG wrote: post #2

I'm looking to learn Game Theory. Anyone with knowledge in this space have good additional recommendations?

Kreps, Game Theory and Economic Modeling has a nice overview and contextualization as I recall. I also really like Brian Skyrm's little books (Evolution of the Social Contract and Stag Hunt) for an introduction to the evolutionary side.

Note, those aren't textbooks. They're applied/context works with introductions, and I think they're better for developing intuition before getting into a textbook.

For a really accessible textbook that (as I recall) isn't as math-heavy as some others, Morrow, Game Theory for Political Scientists.

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Post by ianai »

tramGG wrote: post #2

I'm looking to learn Game Theory. Anyone with knowledge in this space have good additional recommendations?

I had a professor once classify GT as a sub set of statistical decision theory. Might be worth picking up a SDT text.

Does anyone ever read Theory of Games by von Neumann?

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