DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Games people play : game theory in life, business, and beyond / the Teaching Company.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., ©2008.

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 116 pages ; 19 cm).

Game theory plays a crucial role in our lives and provides startling insights into all endeavors in which humans cooperate or compete, including biology, computer science, politics, agriculture, and, most importantly, economics. Game theory is used in economics, corporate decision-making, international diplomacy and military strategy, psychology, and evolutionary biology. Game theory is observable in everyday situations like buying a car, or deciding where to go on a Saturday night. A basic working knowledge of game theory is valuable--it is a tool that sorts through information and offers insight into decisions facing players in games, and in life.

Great courses. Business & Economics. Economics

Great courses ; no. 1426

Great courses (DVD). Business & economics. Economics.

Game theory.

Differential games.

Games of chance (Mathematics)

Games of strategy (Mathematics)

Noncooperative games (Mathematics)

Statistical decision.

Game theory -- Study and teaching.

Science films.

Lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Stevens, Scott P., speaker

Rhoades, Zachary.

Teaching Company.

Game theory in life, business, and beyond

Course no. 1426

Course workbook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outline, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Producer/editor, Zachary H. Rhoades ; academic content supervisor, Gerry Kasarda.

Twenty-four thirty minute lectures by Dr. Scott P. Stevens, Professor of Computer Information Systems and Management Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

DVD.

World of game theory ; Nature of the game ; Real life chessboard: Sequential games ; Life's little games: The 2x2 classic games ; Guessing right, simultaneous move games ; Practical applications of game theory -- Random walk: Dealing with chance events ; Pure competition: Constant-sum games ; Mixed strategies and nonzero-sum games ; Threats, promises and commitments ; Credibility, deterrence and compellence ; Incomplete and imperfect information.

Whom can you trust? ; Encouraging productivity: Incentive schemes ; Persistence of memory: Repeated games ; Does this stuff really work? ; Tragedy of the commons ; Games in motion: Evolutionary game theory -- Game theory and economics: Oligopolies ; Voting: Determining the will of the people ; Auctions and the winner's curse ; Bargaining and cooperative games ; Game theory and business: Co-opetition ; All the world's a game.

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