Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection (Economic Learning and Social Evolution) - Softcover

Samuelson, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262692198 ISBN 13: 9780262692199

Publisher: MIT Press, 1998

Synopsis

The author examines the interplay between evolutionary game theory and the equilibrium selection problem in noncooperative games.

Evolutionary game theory is one of the most active and rapidly growing areas of research in economics. Unlike traditional game theory models, which assume that all players are fully rational and have complete knowledge of details of the game, evolutionary models assume that people choose their strategies through a trial-and-error learning process in which they gradually discover that some strategies work better than others. In games that are repeated many times, low-payoff strategies tend to be weeded out, and an equilibrium may emerge. Larry Samuelson has been one of the main contributors to the evolutionary game theory literature. In Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection, he examines the interplay between evolutionary game theory and the equilibrium selection problem in noncooperative games. After providing an overview of the basic issues of game theory and a presentation of the basic models, the book addresses evolutionary stability, the dynamics of sample paths, the ultimatum game, drift, noise, backward and forward induction, and strict Nash equilibria.

About this title

About the Author

Larry Samuelson is A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics at Yale University.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262692198
• ISBN 13: 9780262692199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328