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Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution

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  • © 1974

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Editors:
  1. Anatol Rapoport

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library (TDLU, volume 2)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Anatol Rapoport
      Pages 1-14

  4. N-Person Games

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-285
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Game theory could be formally defined as a theory of rational decision in conflict situations. Models of such situations, as they are conceived in game theory, involve (1) a set of decision makers, called players; (2) a set of strategies available to each player; (3) a set of outcomes, each of which is a result of particular choices of strategies made by the players on a given play of the game; and (4) a set of payoffs accorded to each player in each of the possible outcomes. It is assumed that each player is 'individually rational', in the sense that his preference ordering of the outcomes is determined by the order of magnitudes of his (and only his) associated payoffs. Further, a player is rational in the sense that he assumes that every other player is rational in the above sense. The rational player utilizes knowledge of the other players' payoffs in guiding his choice of strategy, because it gives him information about how the other players' choices are guided. Since, in general, the orders of magnitude of the payoffs that accrue to the several players in the several outcomes do not coincide, a game of strategy is a model of a situation involving conflicts of interests.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    Anatol Rapoport

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution

  • Editors: Anatol Rapoport

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2161-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1974

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0424-5Published: 31 May 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0489-4Published: 31 May 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2161-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 285

  • Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences

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