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This revised edition contains new material & shows students how to apply game theory to model human behaviour in ways that reflect the special nature of sociality & individuality. It continues its in-depth look at cooperation in teams, agent-based simulations, experimental economics, & the evolution & diffusion of preferences.

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"Gintis has wholeheartedly embraced the evolutionary approach to games. . .The author is an accomplished economist raised in the classical mold, and his background shown in many aspects of the book . . . He himself has important things to say."--Karl Sigmund, Science
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Contents
Preface xxi Suggestions for Instructors xxx
I Concepts and Problems
1 Game Theory: A Lexicon for Strategic Interaction 3
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 Big Monkey and Little Monkey 3
1.3 The Extensive Form Game 10
1.4 The Normal Form Game 12
1.5 Nash Equilibrium 12
1.6 Reviewing the Terminology 14
2 Leading from Strength: Eliminating Dominated Strategies 15
2.1 Introduction 15
2.2 Dominant and Dominated Strategies 15
2.3 Backward Induction: Pruning the Game Tree 16
2.4 Eliminating Dominated Strategies 18
2.5 Concepts and Definitions 18
2.6 The Prisoner's Dilemma 19
2.7 An Armaments Game 20
2.8 Second-Price Auction 20
2.9 The Landlord and the Eviction Notice 21
2.10 Hagar's Battles 21
2.11 An Increasing-Bid Auction 21
2.12 The Debtor and His Creditors 22
2.13 Football Strategy 22
2.14 A Military Strategy Game 22
2.15 Strategic Voting 23
2.16 Eliminating Dominated Strategies ad Absurdum 23
2.17 Poker with Bluffing 24
2.18 The Centipede Game 25
3 Playing It Straight: Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria 27
3.1 Introduction 27
3.2 Pure Coordination Games 28
3.3 Competition on Main Street 28
3.4 A Pure Coordination Game' 29
3.5 Twin Sisters 29
3.6 Variations on Duopoly 30
3.7 The Tobacco Market 31
3.8 Price-Matching as Tacit Collusion 31
3.9 The Klingons and the Snarks 32
3.10 Chess-The Trivial Pastime 33
3.11 The Samaritan's Dilemma 33
3.12 The Rotten Kid Theorem 34
3.13 The Illogic of Conflict Escalation 35
3.14 How to Value Lotteries 36
3.15 Payoffs in Games Where Nature Moves 37
3.16 Nature in Action: No-Draw, High-Low Poker 38
3.17 The Expected Utility Principle 41
3.18 Buying Fire Insurance 42
3.19 Neoclassical Economics and Game Theory 43
3.20 Markets as Disciplining Devices: Allied Widgets 46
3.21 The Truth Game 51
3.22 The Shopper and the Fish Merchant 52
3.23 Fathers and Sons 53
3.24 The Women of Sevitan 53
4 Catching 'em Off Guard: Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibria 54
4.1 Introduction 54
4.2 Mixed Strategies: Basic Definitions 55
4.3 The Fundamental Theorem 56
4.4 Solving for Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibria 57
4.5 Reviewing the Terminology 58
4.6 Big Monkey and Little Monkey Revisited 59
4.7 Dominance Revisited 59
4.8 Competition on Main Street Revisited 59
4.9 Battle of the Sexes 60
4.10 Throwing Fingers 60
4.11 One-Card Two-Round Poker with Bluffing 60
4.12 Trust in Networks 62
4.13 Behavioral Strategies in Extensive Form Games 63
4.14 Lions and Antelope 65
4.15 The Santa Fe Bar 66
4.16 Orange-Throat, Blue-Throat, and Yellow-
Striped Lizards 67
4.17 Sex Ratios as Nash Equilibria 68
4.18 Tennis Strategy 69
4.19 A Mating Game 70
4.20 Preservation of Ecology Game 71
4.21 Hard Love 71
4.22 Coordination Failure 72
4.23 Advertising Game 72
4.24 Colonel Blotto Game 72
4.25 Number Guessing Game 73
4.26 Target Selection 73
4.27 A Reconnaissance Game 74
4.28 Attack on Hidden Object 74
4.29 Two-Person Zero-Sum Games 75
4.30 An Introduction to Forward Induction 76
4.31 Mutual Monitoring in a Partnership 77
4.32 Mutual Monitoring in Teams 78
4.33 Altruism(?) in Bird Flocks 79
4.34 Robin Hood and Little John 80
4.35 The Motorist's Dilemma 80
4.36 Family Politics 81
4.37 Frankie and Johnny 81
4.38 A Card Game 82
4.39 Cheater-Inspector 82
4.40 The Groucho Marx Game 82
4.41 Real Men Don't Eat Quiche 84
4.42 The Vindication of the Hawk 84
4.43 Correlated Equilibria 85
4.44 Poker with Bluffing Revisited 87
4.45 Equivalence of Behavioral and Mixed Strategies 87
5 Moving through the Game Tree: Subgames,
Incredible Threats, and Trembling Hands 90
5.1 Introduction 90
5.2 Subgame Perfection 92
5.3 Stackelberg Leadership 95
5.4 The Subway Entry Deterrence Game 96
5.5 The Dr. Strangelove Game 96
5.6 The Rubinstein Bargaining Model 97
5.7 Huey, Dewey, and Louie Split a Dollar 99
5.8 The Little Miss Muffet Game 99
5.9 Nuisance Suits 100
5.10 Cooperation in an Overlapping-Generations
Economy 102
5.11 The Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma 103
5.12 The Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma 11 109
5.13 Fuzzy Subgame Perfection 110
5.14 Perfect Behavioral Nash Equilibria 112
5.15 Selten's Horse 114
5.16 Trembling Hand Perfection 115
5.17 Nature Abhors Low Probability Events 117
6 Repeated Games, Trigger Strategies, and Tacit Collusion 118
6.1 Introduction 118
6.2 Big Fish and Little Fish 119
6.3 Tacit Collusion 121
6.4 The Folk Theorem: An Embarras de richesses 126
6.5 Variations on the Folk Theorem 127
6.6 The One-Stage Deviation Principle 129
6.7 A Trembling Hand, Cooperative Equilibrium 130
6.8 Death and Discount Rates in Repeated Games 131
6.9 The Strategy of an Oil Cartel 132
6.10 Manny and Moe 132
6.11 Tit-for-Tat 132
6.12 A Public Goods Experiment 133
6.13 Reputational Equilibrium 134
6.14 Contingent Renewal Contracts 134
6.15 Contingent Renewal Labor Markets 140
6.16 I'd Rather Switch than Fight 145
7 Biology Meets Economics: Evolutionary Stability
and the Birth of Dynamic Game Theory 148
7.1 The Birth of Evolutionary Stability 148
7.2 Properties of Evolutionarily Stable Strategies 149
7.3 Are Evolutionarily Stable Strategies Unbeatable? 152
7.4 Trust in Networks 11 152
7.5 Cooperative Fishing 152
7.6 Nash Equilibrium That Is Not Evolutionarily
Stable 153
7.7 Rock, Paper, and Scissors Is Not Evolutionarily
Stable 153
7.8 Sex Ratios as Evolutionarily Stable Strategies 153
7.9 Invasion of the Pure Strategy Mutants 154
7.10 Multiple Evolutionarily Stable Strategies 154
7.11 The Logic of Animal Conflict 155
7.12 Hawks, Doves, and Bourgeois 157
7.13 Trogs and Farfel 158
7.14 Evolutionary Stability in Finite Populations 159
7.15 Evolutionary Stability in Asymmetric Games 161
8 Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations 164
8.1 Introduction 164
8.2 Dynamical Systems 165
8.3 Population Growth 166
8.4 Population Growth with Limited Carrying
Capacity 166
8.5 The Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey Model 168
8.6 Dynamical Systems Theory 172
8.7 Dynamical Systems in One Dimension 175
8.8 Dynamical Systems in Two Dimensions 178
8.9 Exercises in Two-Dimensional Linear Systems 181
8.10 Cultural Dynamics 182
8.11 Lotka-Volterra with Limited Carrying Capacity 183
8.12 Take No Prisoners 183
8.13 The Hartman-Grobman Theorem 184
8.14 Special Features of Two-Dimensional Dynamical
Systems 185
8.15 A Non-Hyperbolic Dynamical System 185
8.16 Liapunov's Theorem 186
9 Evolutionary Dynamics 188
9.1 Introduction 188
9.2 The Origins of Evolutionary Dynamics 189
9.3 Properties of the Replicator System 197
9.4 Characterizing the Two-Variable Replicator
Dynamic 198
9.5 Do Dominated Strategies Survive under a
Replicator Dynamic? 199
9.6 Equilibrium and Stability with a Replicator Dynamic 201
9.7 Evolutionary Stability and Evolutionary Equilibrium 202
9.8 Trust in Networks 111 203
9.9 Bayesian Perfection and Stable Sets 203
9.10 Invasion of the Pure Strategy Mutants, 11 204
9.11 A Generalization of Rock, Paper, and Scissors 205
9.12 Uta stansburia in Motion 206
9.13 The Dynamics of Rock-Paper-Scissors and
Related Games 207
9.14 Lotka-Volterra Model and Biodiversity 208
9.15 Asymmetric Evolutionary Games 210
9.16 Asymmetric Evolutionary Games: Reviewing
the Troops 214
9.17 The Evolution of Trust and Honesty 214
9.18 The Loraxes and Thoraxes 216
9.19 Cultural Transmission and Social Imitation 217
10 Markov Economies and Stochastic Dynamical Systems 220
10.1 Introduction 220
10.2 The Emergence of Money in a Markov Economy 221
10.3 Good Vibrations 228
10.4 Adaptive Learning 229
10.5 Adaptive Learning When Not All Conventions
are Equal 233
10.6 Adaptive Learning with Errors 234
10.7 Stochastic Stability 235
11 Homo reciprocans, Homo egualis, and Other Contributors
to the Human Behavioral Repertoire 237
11.1 Introduction 237
11.2 Modeling the Human Actor 239
11.3 Behavioral Economics: Games against Nature
and against Ourselves 244
11.4 Experimental Game Theory: The Laboratory
Meets Strategic Interaction 251
11.5 Homo egualis 258
11.6 Homo reciprocans: Modeling Strong Reciprocity 261
11.7 Altruism and Assortative Interactions 266
11.8 The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity 271
11.9 Homo parochius: Modeling Insiders and Outsiders 278
12 Learning Who Your Friends Are: Bayes' Rule
and Private Information 284
12.1 Private Information 284
12.2 The Role of Beliefs in Games with Private
Information 289
12.3 Haggling at the Bazaar 291
12.4 Adverse Selection 294
12.5 A Market for Lemons 295
12.6 Choosing an Exorcist 296
12.7 A First-Price Sealed-Bid Auction 299
12.8 A Common Value Auction: The Winner's Curse 300
12.9 A Common Value Auction: Quantum Spin
Decoders 300
12.10 Predatory Pricing: Pooling and Separating
Equilibria 302
12.11 Limit Pricing 304
12.12 A Simple Limit-Pricing Model 305
13 When It Pays to Be Truthful: Signaling in Games with
Friends, Adversaries, and Kin 307
13.1 Signaling as a Coevolutionary Process 307
13.2 A Generic Signaling Game 308
13.3 Introductory Offers 310
13.4 Web Sites (for Spiders) 310
13.5 Sex and Piety: The Darwin-Fisher Model
of Sexual Selection 312
13.6 Biological Signals as Handicaps 317
13.7 The Shepherds Who Never Cry Wolf 319
13.8 My Brother's Keeper 321
13.9 Honest Signaling among Partial Altruists 323
13.10 Educational Signaling 1 325
13.11 Education as a Screening Device 328
13.12 Capital as a Signaling Device 329
14 Bosses and Workers, Landlords and Peasants, and
Other Principal-Agent Models 332
14.1 Introduction to the Principal-Agent Model 332
14.2 Labor Discipline with Monitoring 333
14.3 Labor as Gift Exchange 335
14.4 Labor Discipline with Profit Signaling 336
14.5 Peasants and Landlords 340
14.6 Mr. Smith's Car Insurance 341
14.7 A Generic One-Shot Principal-Agent Game 342
15 Bargaining 345
15.1 Introduction 345
15.2 The Nash Bargaining Model 346
15.3 Risk Aversion and the Nash Bargaining Solution 349
15.4 Rubinstein Bargaining with Outside Options 350
15.5 Bargaining with Two-Sided Outside Options 352
15.6 Rubinstein Bargaining and Nash Bargaining 353
15.7 Zeuthen Lotteries and the Nash Bargaining
Solution 354
15.8 Bargaining with Fixed Costs 355
15.9 Bargaining with Incomplete Information 355
16 Probability and Decision Theory 357
16.1 Probability Spaces 357
16.2 DeMorgan's Laws 357
16.3 Interocitors 358
16.4 The Direct Evaluation of Probabilities 358
16.5 Probability as Frequency 358
16.6 Sampling 360
16.7 Self-presentation 360
16.8 Social Isolation 361
16.9 Aces Up 361
16.10 Mechanical Defection 361
16.11 Double Orders 361
16.12 Combinations and Sampling 361
16.13 Mass Defection 362
16.14 An Unlucky Streak 362
16.15 House Rules 362
16.16 The Powerball Lottery 362
16.17 The Addition Rule for Probabilities 362
16.18 Die, Die! 363
16.19 Les Cinq Tiroirs 363
16.20 A Guessing Game 363
16.21 Conditional Probability 363
16.22 Bayes' Rule 364
16.23 Drug Testing 365
16.24 A Bolt Factory 365
16.25 Color Blindness 365
16.26 Urns 365
16.27 The Monty Hall Game 365
16.28 The Logic of Murder and Abuse 367
16.29 Ah, Those Kids 369
16-30 The Greens and the Blacks 369
16-31 Laplace's Law of Succession 369
16.32 The Brain and Kidney Problem 370
16.33 Sexual Harassment on the Job 370
16.34 The Value of Eyewitness Testimony 370
16.35 The End of the World 371
16.36 Bill and Harry 371
16.37 When Weakness Is Strength 371
16.38 Markov Chains 372
16.39 Preferences and Expected Utility 381
16.40 Exceptions to the Expected Utility Principle 385
16.41 Risk Behavior and the Shape of the Utility
Function 387
II Answers and Hints
2 Leading from Strength: Eliminating Dominated Strategies 395
2.8 Second-Price Auction 395
2.10 Hagar's Battles 395
2.14 A Military Strategy Game 396
2.15 Strategic Voting 397
3 Playing It Straight: Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria 399
3.7 The Tobacco Market 399
3.9 The Klingons and the Snarks 400
3.10 Chess-The Trivial Pastime 401
3.11 The Samaritan's Dilemma 401
3.12 The Rotten Kid Theorem 403
3.13 The Illogic of Conflict Escalation 404
3.14 How to Value Lotteries 404
3.21 The Truth Game 405
3.22 The Shopper and the Fish Merchant 407
3.24 The Women of Sevitan 408
4 Catching 'em Off Guard: Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibria 410
4.9 Battle of the Sexes 410
4.11 One-Card Two-Round Poker with Bluffing 412
4.15 The Santa Fe Bar 413
4.17 Sex Ratios as Nash Equilibria 414
4.19 A Mating Game 416
4.20 Preservation of Ecology Game 416
4.22 Coordination Failure 417
4.23 Advertising Game 417
4.24 Colonel Blotto Game 419
4.25 Number Guessing Game 420
4.26 Target Selection 420
4.27 A Reconnaissance Game 421
4.28 Attack on Hidden Object 422
4.34 Robin Hood and Little John 422
4.35 The Motorist's Dilemma 423
4.37 Frankie and Johnny 424
4.38 A Card Game 425
4.39 Cheater-Inspector 427
4.40 The Groucho Marx Game 428
4.41 Real Men Don't Eat Quiche 431
4.45 Equivalence of Behavioral and Mixed
Strategies 432
5 Moving through the Game Tree: Subgames,
Incredible Threats, and Trembling Hands 436
5.4 The Subway Entry Deterrence Game 436
5.5 The Dr. Strangelove Game 436
5.7 Huey, Dewey, and Louie Split a Dollar 437
5.10 Cooperation in an Overlapping-Generations
Economy 438
5.12 The Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma 11 439
5.15 Selten's Horse 440
5.16 Trembling Hand Perfection 441
6 Repeated Games, Trigger Strategies, and Tacit Collusion 442
6.13 Reputational Equilibrium 442
7 Biology Meets Economics: Evolutionary Stability
and the Birth of Dynamic Game Theory 443
7.2 Properties of Evolutionarily Stable Strategies 443
7.5 Cooperative Fishing 446
7.12 Hawks, Doves, and Bourgeois 447
7.13 Trogs and Farfel 448
7.14 Evolutionary Stability in Finite Populations 449
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  • Data di pubblicazione2000
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