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Game Theory and Strategy
This book is an introduction to mathematical game theory, which might better be called the mathematical theory of conflict and cooperation. It is applicable whenever two individuals—or companies, or political parties, or nations—confront situations where the outcome for each depends on the behavior of all. What are the best strategies in such situations? If there are chances of cooperation, with whom should you cooperate, and how should you share the proceeds of cooperation? Since its creation by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944, game theory has shed new light on business, politics, economics, social psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary biology. In this book, its fundamental ideas are developed with mathematics at the level of high school algebra and applied to many of these fields (see the table of contents). Ideas like “fairness” are presented via axioms that fair allocations should satisfy; thus the reader is introduced to axiomatic thinking as well as to mathematical modeling of actual situations.
Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications
This is the second of three volumes surveying the state of the art in Game Theory and its applications to many and varied fields, in particular to economics. The chapters in the present volume are contributed by outstanding authorities, and provide comprehensive coverage and precise statements of the main results in each area. The applications include empirical evidence. The following topics are covered: communication and correlated equilibria, coalitional games and coalition structures, utility and subjective probability, common knowledge, bargaining, zero-sum games, differential games, and applications of game theory to signalling, moral hazard, search, evolutionary biology, international relations, voting procedures, social choice, public economics, politics, and cost allocation. This handbook will be of interest to scholars in economics, political science, psychology, mathematics and biology. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
An introductory 2001 textbook on probability and induction written by a foremost philosopher of science.
The Split Capital Investment Trust Crisis
Split capital investment trusts (splits) became fashionable in the late 1990s but the splits boom led to some spectacular collapses as the bear market unfolded. Despite warnings from certain analysts, academics and journalists, over 20 splits have gone bust leaving many private investors seeking redress. A major FSA investigation is now underway. This book, with contributions from specialists intimately involved with the crisis, provides an in-depth and authoritative review of splits, discussing their history, what went wrong, and lessons for the future. A range of views is expressed by the contributors. The book is divided into five parts: The Crisis past financial crises, evolution of the split trust sector, the crisis unfolds The Split Capital Trust Market the structures, the risks, valuing the shares Response to the Crisis the media, regulatory and political response Management Issues corporate governance, some ethical considerations, reputational risk Looking Forward product innovation and marketing, some implications for the fund management industry, lessons for the future
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Life Ceremony
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eating them and then procreating. Published in English for the first time, this exclusive edition also includes the story that first brought Sayaka Murata international acclaim: 'A Clean Marriage', which tells the story of a happily asexual couple who must submit to some radical medical procedures if they are to conceive a longed-for child. Mixing taboo-breaking body horror with feminist revenge fables, old ladies who love each other and young women finding empathy and transformation in unlikely places, Life Ceremony is a wild ride to the outer edges of one of the most original minds in contemporary fiction.
Edinburgh - The Making of a Capital City
Introduction / Brian Edwards and Paul Jenkins --The evolution of the medieval and Renaissance city /Ian Campbell and Margaret Stewart --Twinning cities : modernisation versus improvement in the two towns of Edinburgh /Charles McKean --Landscape, topography and hydrology /John Stuart-Murray --Landscapes of capital : industry and the built environment in Edinburgh, 1750-1920 /Richard Rodger --Edinburgh--a tenement city? /Peter Robinson --'Conservative surgery' in Old Edinburgh, 1880-1940 /Lou Rosenburg and Jim Johnson --Housing and suburbanisation in the early and mid-20th century /Miles Glendinning --The changing role of the planner before and after the Second World War and the effect on urban form /Cliff Hague --Creation and conservation of the built environment in the later 20th century /Paul Jenkins and Julian Holder --Preparing for the 21st century : the city in a global environment /Derek Kerr --The changing image and identity of the city in the 21st century : 'Athens of the North' or 'North of Athens' /Cliff Hague and Paul Jenkins --Conclusion :Learning from history /Brian Edwards and Paul Jenkins.
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