Games, Strategies, and Managers
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:22nd Aug '96
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A complete and accessible guide to game theory
`Experience may help you see the trees, but game theory shows you the whole forest.' John McMillan This revealing new book uses game theory - the most exciting new area of economic theory - to provide managers at all levels with the key to becoming top negotiators.This textbook provides a complete and accessible introduction to game theory and will prove especially valuable to business students and practising business-people. It covers all aspects of the subject: conflict and risk, negotiating, commitment as a bargaining technique, bidding, theoretical and empirical analysis of structuring incentives, trading risks, private information, and decisions about information acquisition. It ends with suggestions of how ideas from game theory might be used as an aid to reasoning through an actual strategic situation.
`Games, Strategies, and Managers will be helpful for both beginning managers and for advanced planners. In fact, I would recommend that anyone engaged in US-Japan negotiations - including the US Office of the Trade Representative and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry - read this book.' Akira Omori, Arthur Anderson & Co
`McMillan clearly and straightforwardly explains the most important insights of game theory ... We have long needed a book like this to make the power of game theory accessible.' Roger Myerson, Northwestern University
`excellent introduction to strategic problems in economics ... The book is aimed at MBA students with little previous experience of mathematics or economics ... it could also be used to introduce these topics to undergraduates. In my opinion this book is very useful for students and others who require a quick introduction to recent developments in economic theory.' Economic Journal
- Winner of A complete and accessible guide to game theory.
ISBN: 9780195108033
Dimensions: 155mm x 238mm x 17mm
Weight: 390g
264 pages