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Andy Skrzypacz, Stanford economics professor


WrittenMar2,2016
I have written my list of recommendations here:

What is the best way to learn game theory?

one book that I recommend there that is not yet in the Answer Wiki (as of March 2
2016) is "Game Theory: An Introduction" by Steven Tadelis
http://press.princeton.ed u/title...
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Michael Munie, Founder at Katango


WrittenApr30,2010

Essentials of Game Theory by Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham.

This is the best introduction to game theory. It's written by a computer scientist
working in game theory so I think it's accessible to a wider audience.

It's also new, free, and online. (Can also buy the physical book)
http://www.gtessentials.org/

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I am no math whiz but was curious about Game Theory as well.

If you are looking for something totally general and have heard of Game Theory but
don't entirely grasp even what it even is, I would watch the scene in "A Beautiful
Mind" where Nash discovers out "Governing Dynamics" (and disproves Adam Smith)
it is a cornerstone of Game Theory:

I would then start reading through the introductory and review notes (in addition to
the class slides) from the Game Theory class at MIT (on Opencourseware)

General "Game Theory" classes:


MIT 04'
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/...

MIT 10'
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/econo...

There is also notes from the same class on a website (outside of opencourseware) form
2002:
http://web.mit.edu/14.12/www/

Here's the 1st set of slides from the 2002 class:


http://web.mit.edu/14.12/www/02F...

Game Theory Applied to Specic Fields:


"Economic Applications for Game Theory" looks pretty cool:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/econo...

"Game Theory with Engineering Applications":


http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/elect...

"Game Theory and Political Theory"


http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/polit...

or, Browse All of the classes:


http://search.mit.edu/search?sit...

Yale also has a course on Game Theory, I believe a lecture from it is posted:
http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/ec...
*as an aside, if I'm ever looking for some sort of general introduction on any topic I 29
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browse the online catalogue of courses on any of these kind of University Sites (or go to
Khan Academy)

UPenn
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/lps/online

Cornell
http://www.sce.cornell.edu/dl/in...

Yale
http://oyc.yale.edu/

Columbia
http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/ecours...

There are also a TON on iTunes University


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Brandon Smietana, Founder of Symbolic Analytics


WrittenJul27,2010

Playing for Real: A Text on Game Theory http://amzn.to/cICQuo

It is much more readable as a book than the classical works by von Neumann. It is a
very good book if you want an overview of the ideas and applications of game theory
and want to drive deeper into the mathematics and more advanced areas after you
have a good overview.

The chapters on evolutionary games and biology are especially interesting.

This book combines the mathematics with the underlying concepts very well, where
as most of the other text books are dry and mathematically challenging and dicult
to apply in comparison.

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Nicholas Marx, B.A. Economics


UpdatedFeb4,2012

Games & Information by Eric Rasmusen. http://www.amazon.com/Games-Info...

It's a textbook, but still it's a very readable one. At the end of each chapter there are
problems (with answers) to check your understanding.

Unfortunately, (and in contrast to the Thinking Strategically book that others have
recommended) if you really want to learn game theory, you just can't pass over the 29
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math - it's the basis of game theory. So, it makes sense to brush-up on your matrix
algebra too.

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Amit Chaudhary, Interested in Books


WrittenOct14,2011

Another book option which is easy read, real life based:

Prisoner's Dilemma, on John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the
Bomb by William Poundstone

http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-...

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