Introducing Game Theory

Dr. Ivan and Dr. Tuvana Pastine are American and Turkish university lecturers in Ireland. They specialize in game theory applications and have published jointly and independently on a wide range of topics, including coordinating advertising and price dynamics, political campaign financing, affirmative action in education, sovereign default, speculative attacks, labor migration, and international trade.

Tom Humberstone is a comics and illustration artist. He is the editor and publisher of the UK comics anthology Solipsistic Pop, as well as a former New Statesman cartoonist. Clients include the Guardian, VICE, the Independent, Stylist, OUP, and many others.

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The study of how we make decisions when the outcome of our moves is dependent on the decisions of others is known as game theory. But it's not just about predicting your opponent's next move in a game of chess; conflict and cooperation are central to game theory, which can be applied to everything from our social lives to business, global politics, and evolutionary theory.

In Introducing Game Theory, one of the best books on game theory, economists Ivan and Tuvana Pastine delve beneath the surface of human behavior, drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, political science, and sociology to explain why, when faced with a decision, we sometimes cooperate, sometimes clash and sometimes act in a seemingly random manner.

Introducing Game Theory, stylishly illustrated by regular Guardian illustrator Tom Humberstone, takes readers on a tour of key ideas and thinkers, and immerses them in a series of games that provide a new perspective on the world we live in.

Author: Tom Humberstone, Dr. Ivan, and Dr. Tuvana Pastine

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