Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond
(2008)

Nonfiction

eVideo

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Great Courses, 2008
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource (35 video files (approximately 1086 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT17355944, 17355944
LANGUAGE
English
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Directed by The Great Courses

Scott P. Stevens

In Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond, you explore the fundamentals of game theory in an engaging, comprehensible manner. You investigate the field's classic games, encounter its greatest minds, and discover its real world applications in arenas including corporate negotiations, foreign policy-and your everyday life

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS

Episode 1

The World of Game Theory

Episode 2

Senet: Egypt's Game of the Afterlife

Episode 2

The Nature of the Game

Episode 3

The Real Life Chessboard-Sequential Games

Episode 3

Chess: The Evolution of a Strategy Icon

Episode 4

Life's Little Games-The 2 x 2 Classic Games

Episode 4

Chess's Eastern Cousins: Shogi and Xiangqi

Episode 5

Guessing Right-Simultaneous Move Games

Episode 5

Go: A Game of Near-Infinite Complexity

Episode 6

Sowing Seeds: Africa's Mancala Family

Episode 6

Practical Applications of Game Theory

Episode 7

Decoding the Past: The Royal Game of Ur

Episode 7

A Random Walk-Dealing with Chance Events

Episode 8

Pachisi: India's Iconic Racing Game

Episode 8

Pure Competition-Constant-Sum Games

Episode 9

Mixed Strategies and Nonzero-Sum Games

Episode 9

Patolli: The Lost Game of the Aztecs

Episode 10

All in a Row: Men's Morris to Tic-Tac-Toe

Episode 10

Threats, Promises, and Commitments

Episode 11

King Me! Alquerque and Checkers

Episode 11

Credibility, Deterrence, and Compellence

Episode 12

Incomplete and Imperfect Information

Episode 12

Morality Play: Snakes, Ladders, and Geese

Episode 13

Whom Can You Trust?-Signaling and Screening

Episode 14

Encouraging Productivity-Incentive Schemes

Episode 15

The Persistence of Memory-Repeated Games

Episode 16

Does This Stuff Really Work?

Episode 17

The Tragedy of the Commons

Episode 18

Games in Motion-Evolutionary Game Theory

Episode 19

Game Theory and Economics-Oligopolies

Episode 20

Voting-Determining the Will of the People

Episode 21

Auctions and the Winner's Curse

Episode 22

Bargaining and Cooperative Games

Episode 23

Game Theory and Business-Co-opetition

Episode 24

All the World's a Game

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