Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:34:06 BST CiteULike: heraclitus' game-theory http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/tag/game-theory CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854493 <i>(08 August 1996)</i><br /><br />Game Theory--the formal modelling of conflict and cooperation--first emerged as a recognized field with the publication of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's _Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour_ in 1944. Since then, game-theoretic thinking about choice of strategies and the interdependence of people's actions has influenced all the social sciences. However, little is known about the history of the theory of strategic games _prior_ to this publication. In this volume, the history of strategic games--from its origins up to 1945-- is traced through the work of 19th Century economists such as Cournot and Edgeworth; voting theorists, including Lewis Carroll; conflict theorists Richardson and Lanchester; probabilists such as Bertrand, Borel, and Ville; and later economists, notably Stackelberg and Zeuthen. This authoritative account of the history of game theory concludes with a historical perspective on the achievement of von Neumann and Morgenstern and an appraisal of the reception of their book. A History of Game Theory: From the Beginnings to 1945 Vol 1 (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) Robert Dimand Mary Dimand (08 August 1996) 2008-06-01T11:01:56-00:00 1996 Routledge economics game-theory http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2749193 <i>(15 December 2001)</i><br /><br />This is the first cross-over book in the history of science written by an historian of economics, combining a number of disciplinary and stylistic orientations. In it Philip Mirowshki shows how what is conventionally thought to be "history of technology" can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. His analysis combines Cold War history with the history of the postwar economics profession in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with the content of such abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. He links the literature on "cyborg science" found in science studies to economics, an element missing in the literature to date. Mirowski further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents found in the larger culture, arguing that neoclassical economics has surreptitiously participated in the desconstruction of the integral "Self." Finally, he argues for a different style of economics, an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism. Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. He teaches in both the economics and science studies communities and has written frequently for academic journals. He is also the author of More Heat than Light (Cambridge, 1992) and editor of Natural Images in Economics (Cambridge, 1994) and Science Bought and Sold (University of Chicago, 2001). Machine Dreams Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science Philip Mirowski (15 December 2001) 2008-05-03T15:56:46-00:00 2001 Cambridge University Press economics game-theory history-of