Readings in games and information /
edited by Eric Rasmusen.
- xviii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell readings for contemporary economics. .
- Blackwell readings for contemporary economics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Rules of the Game -- The Prisoner's Dilemma -- A Two-Person Dilemma -- Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games -- Non-Cooperative Games -- To Ensure High Prices, Some Haulers Have Been Known to Break the Rules -- Cash Flow: 'Pay to Play' is Banned, But Muni-Bound Firms Keep the Game Going -- School of Genius -- Cartoon: Ratbert and Consultant -- Information -- The Donation Booth -- The Horatii and the Curiatii -- TREES - A Decision-Maker's Lament -- Knowing and Showing Economics and Law -- Cartoon: "All Those in Favor, Say 'Aye'" -- Mixed and Continuous Strategies -- Colonel Blotto: A Problem of Military Strategy -- Dutch Accountants Take on a Formidable Task: Ferreting Out "Cheaters" in the Ranks of OPEC -- Shipping Price-Fixing Pacts Hurt Consumers, Critics Say -- The Conference Handbook -- Cartoon: "Very Guilty" -- Dynamic Games with Symmetric Information -- On An Application of Set Theory to the Theory of the Game of Chess -- The Strategy of Conflict -- Does the Fittest Necessarily Survive? -- Shooting the Bird's Eye -- Cartoon: "That's It? That's Peer Review?" -- Reputation and Repeated Games with Symmetric Information -- The Evolution of Cooperation -- This Tax Amnesty Will Work Only Once -- Fare Warning: How Airlines Trade Price Plans -- Starting Research Early -- Cartoon: Einstein Discovers that Time is Actually Money -- Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information -- Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma -- Cheap Talk, Coordination, and Entry -- Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family -- Cartoon: "Say, I Think I See Where We Went Off." -- Moral Hazard: Hidden Actions -- Monopoly Slack and Competitive Rigor: A Simple Model -- An Optimal Conviction Policy for Offenses that May Have Been Committed by Accident -- Bonded Worker in No Guarantee of a Perfect Job -- Cartoon: "Look, Ted! We Get Paid the Same as You but All We're Doing is Standing Around and Flicking our Fingers" -- Further Topics in Moral Hazard -- Wealth of Nations -- Examples of Plea Bargains -- Unions Say Auto Firms Use Interplant Rivalry to Raise Work Quotas -- Cartoon: "Dilbert, I Want You to Manage Wally's Project While He's on Vacation in Aruba" -- Adverse Selection -- The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism -- The Only Game in Town -- Are Advertisers Ready to Pay Their Viewers? -- The Creation of New Mathematics: An Application of the Lakatos Heuristic -- Cartoon: Frank's Neurosurgery -- Mechanism Design in Adverse Selection and in Moral Hazard with Hidden Information -- Tie Salesmen's Bonuses to Their Forecasts -- Car-Buying Services Can Save Money, Especially for Those who Hate Haggling -- How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time -- Cartoon: "Of Course That's Only an Estimate." -- Signalling -- High and Declining Prices Signal Product Quality -- The Argument of an Appeal -- Cartoon: "Yes, but the Trouble is he Always Wears that Mysterious Smile" -- Bargaining -- The Bargaining Problem -- Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model -- UPS Faces More Than $1 Billion of Year in New Labor Expenses: Pact Calls for Substantial Pay Increases, Full-Time Jobs and a Union Pension Plan -- Cartoon: "Whatever Happened to Elegant Solutions?" -- Auctions -- The Dollar Auction Game: A Paradox in Noncooperative Behavior and Escalation -- Analyzing the Airwaves Auction -- At Many Auctions, Illegal Bidding Thrives as a Longtime Practice Among Dealers -- Cartoon: "The Next Item up for Bid is the Presidency of the United States." -- Pricing -- Stability in Competition -- The Mathematical Economics of Professor Amoroso -- Existence and Computation of Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium for 3-Firms Location Problem -- Busting a Trust: Electrical Contractors Reel Under Charges That They Rigged Bids -- Cartoon: "Isn't it Great that We Don't Get Any More Pesky Calls during Dinner Asking us to Switch Long-Distance Companies?" -- Entry -- The Fat-Cat Effect, the Puppy-Dog Poly, and the Lean and Hungry Look -- Drugs: Novel Heart-Drug Deal Protects Sales, Spurs Suit -- Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening -- Cartoon: Henry and the Candy Shop -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. 2. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Pt. 3. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Pt. 4. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Pt. 5. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Pt. 6. 29. 30. 31. 32. Pt. 7. 33. 34. 35. 36. Pt. 8. 37. 38. 39. 40. Pt. 9. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. Pt. 10. 46. 47. 48. 49. Pt. 11. 50. 51. 52. Pt. 12. 53. 54. 55. 56. Pt. 13. 57. 58. 59. 60. Pt. 14. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. Pt. 15. 66. 67. 68. 69.