| Course Title: Game Theory |
| Start Date: 01/24/2022 End Date: 05/09/2022 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2022 |
| Description: The course will illustrate and analyze the strategies used in making interrelated decisions. Concepts from game theory will be developed using examples and cases drawn from economics, business, politics, and even sports. Applications will include the Prisoner's Dilemma and related games, signaling, bargaining, voting and power, brinkmanship, and nuclear deterrence. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Prithvijit Mukherjee | prithvijit@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | KNDD - Kendade | 303 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: Not open to first-year students in their first semester. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
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| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 14 | Available: 4 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Games of Strategy Author: Dixit, Skeath, Avinash, Susan Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780393680843 Publisher: Norton |
Required | 127.12 |
| Title: Strategy and Game Theory: Practice Exercises with Answers Author: Munoz-Garcia, Felix Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 3319329626 Publisher: Springer |
Optional | 0.00 |
| Title: Games, Strategies and Decision Making Author: Harrington, Joseph E Copyright: 2015 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 1429239964 Publisher: MacMillan |
Optional | 175.00 |
| Title: An Introduction to Game Theory Author: Osborne, Martin J Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0195128958 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
Optional | 179.99 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |