Last week I stopped into SOURCE Dublin to give a follow-up to my recent talk in Boston, another foray into game theory (Games We Play: Payoffs & Chaos Monkeys) — this time w/some more advanced mathiness and references back into behavioral economics. Anyway, I still owe some explanatory blog posts to support some of the materials I had to rush through (to get everything into 45 minutes), but first thing I wanted to share is my working reading list. I’m finishing up reading some other books which I’ll post later but this is a good overview and will get folks interested in the topics headed in the right direction.
- Ariely, Dan. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2008. Print.
- Axelrod, Robert M. The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic, 1984. Print.
- Fisher, Len. Rock Paper Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life. New York: Basic, 2008. Print.
- Gibbons, Robert. Game Theory for Applied Economists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1992. Print.
- Gintis, Herbert. Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2000. Print.
- Ignacio Palacios-Heurta (2003) “Professionals Play Minimax” Review of Economic Studies, Volume 70, pp 395-415. (http://www.palacios-huerta.com/docs/professionals.pdf)
- Jackson, Leyton-Brown & Shoham. Game Theory. (Stanford University and University of British Columbia: Coursera), http://www.coursera.org, Accessed 2013.
- Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Print.
- Leyton-Brown, Kevin, and Yoav Shoham. Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction. [San Rafael, Calif.]: Morgan & Claypool, 2008. Print.
- Meadows, Donella. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008. Kindle edition.
- Polak, Ben. Game Theory (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu, Accessed 2012. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
- Thomas, L. C. Games, Theory, and Applications. Chichester: E. Horwood, 1984. Print.
- Wikipedia sections on Game Theory section, Economics, and Probability.