...Rabia Nessah; Tarik Tazdaït; Mehrdad Vahabi In this article, we are interested in exploring the history of game theory in France, and particularly the way it was received and was diffused in the 1950s. It will be shown that France was the most fertile soil in continental Europe...

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... Press . Giocoli Nicola . 2003 . Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar . Mirowski Philip . 2002 . Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Nash John...

...Philip Mirowski When Games Grow Deadly Serious: The Military Influence on the Evolution of Game Theory Philip Mirowski I have prefaced this paper with a photocopy of the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme, not because I am trying to innovate some new bastard genre of academic paper, but rather...

.... International Economic Review 4 ( October ): 235 -46. Edgeworth , F. Y. 1881 . Mathematical Psychics . London: Kegan Paul. Gale , D. , H. W. Kuhn, and A. W. Tucker. 1951 . Linear Programming and the Theory of Games. In Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation , edited by T. C...

...Howard Raiffa Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Flood , M. M. 1952 . Some Experimental Games: Research Memorandum RM-789. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation. Kuhn , H. , and A. W. Tucker, eds. 1950 . Contributions to the Theory of Games , vol. 1...

...Angela M. O'Rand Mathematizing Social Science in the 1950s: The Early Development and Diffusion of Game Theory Angela M. O’Rand The man of letters is increasingly finding, to his dismay, that the study of mankind proper is passing from his hands to those...

... in Game Theory , edited by M. Dresher, L. S. Shapley, and A. W. Tucker. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Axelrod , Robert . 1970 . Conflict of Interest . Chicago: Markham. Axelrod , Robert . 1984 . The Evolution of Cooperation . New York: Basic Books. Banzhaf III John F...

...Robin E. Rider Operations Research and Game Theory: Early Connections Robin E. Rider Promises, Promises In the realms of science and technology, new instruments and methods have long shone with the promise of unspecified but splendid discover- ies, observations, and applications...

...Vernon L. Smith Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Aumann , R. J. Game Theory. 1987 . In The New Palgrave , vol. 2 , edited by J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman. London: Macmillan. Bellman , R. , et al. 1957 . On the Construction of a Multistage...

...Robert J. Leonard Creating a Context for Game Theory Robert J. Leonard Introduction After decades of hesitation, the theory of games now plays a central role in economic theory. New textbooks on microeconomics no longer relegate Nash equilibrium to a section on “other topics...

...Robert W. Dimand Correspondence may be addressed to the Department of Economics, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada. Duke University Press 2000 Allen, L. 1956 . Games Bargaining: A Proposed Application of the Theory of Games to Collective Bargaining. Yale Law...

...” or “basic” science and applied science, noting how distinctions appear to underwrite particular economies of credit within the scientific community and beyond it. Second, by exploring the relevance of this historiography to the case of evolutionary biology’s theory of games, it demonstrates how one...

... 59 ( 1951 ): 61 -66. Baumol , W. J. , and S. Goldfeld. Precursors in Mathematical Economics: An Anthology . Series of Reprints of Scarce Works on Political Economy No. 19. London, 1968 . Benard , J. “The Theory of Games of Strategy as a Modern Sociology of Conflict”. American...

...Andrew Schotter Oskar Morgenstern’s Contribution to the Development of the Theory of Games Andrew Schotter The theory of games represents one of the few genuine social-scientific inventions of the twentieth century. Unlike many contributions to social science which rely...

.... Dimand , R. W. , and M. A. Dimand 1992 . The Early History of the Theory of Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel. In Toward a History of Game Theory . Edited by E. R. Weintraub. Durham: Duke University Press. Fisher , R. A. 1934 . Randomisation, and an Old Enigma of Card Play...

...Robert W. Dimand; Mary Ann Dimand The Early History of the Theory of Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel Robert W. Dimand and Mary Ann Dimand Probabilists have studied games of chance since the beginning of proba- bility theory. Strategic games, whose outcome depends...

...Urs Rellstab Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Leonard , R. J. 1992 . Creating a Context for Game Theory. HOPE , this issue. Mirowski , P. 1991 . When Games Grow Deadly Serious: The Military Influence on the Evolution of Game Theory. In Economics...

... Book Reviews 189 Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. By John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. Sixtieth anniversary edition, with an introduction by Harold W. Kuhn and an afterword by Ariel Rubinstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xxxii; 741 pp. $50.00. With 2004 marking...

... Mor- genstern’s recently published Theory of Games and Economic Behav- ior ([1944] 2004), Simon dwelt on past failures to bring mathematical technique into the heart of social science. With the notable exceptions of mathematical economics and statistical analysis, Simon (1945, 559) lamented...