Games people play [videorecording] : game theory in life, business, and beyond /

Games people play game theory in life, business, and beyond / [videorecording] : Game theory in life, business, and beyond taught by Scott P. Stevens. - Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2008. - 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 124 p. ; 19 cm.) - Great courses. Science and mathematics . - Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. .

Part 1 and Part 2 each consist of 2 DVDs. "Course no. 1426"

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. Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1. Lecture 2. Lecture 3. Lecture 4. Lecture 5. Lecture 6. Disc 2. Lecture 7. Lecture 8. Lecture 9. Lecture 10. Lecture 11. Lecture 12. 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. Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13. Lecture 14. Lecture 15. Lecture 16. Lecture 17. Lecture 18. Disc 4. Lecture 19. Lecture 20. Lecture 21. Lecture 22. Lecture 23. Lecture 24.

Lecturer: Professor Scott P. Stevens.

Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Scott P. Stevens, Professor of Computer Information Systems and Management Science at James Madison University, based on his courses in game theory.


DVD.

1598034839 (set) 9781598034837 (set)


Educational films.
Game theory.
Game theory--Study and teaching.

QA269 / .G34 2008