Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John Von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
by John Von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern

Book Description: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1955. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Maroon cloth boards with silver title to spine, (Original Copyright was 1944), This is the Third Edition, Sixth printing, 1955.

Book Condition: Good, boards rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped and frayed, moderate wear to edges and spine extremes, spine straight, binding intact, end papers and pages clean and free of marks (stray pen mark on page 17, but that's all I could find), a few pages in center are creased at the top corner, slightest tanning to pages appropriate to the age of this title. No dust jacket.

Contents: Preface, Technical Note, Acknowledgment, CHAPTER 1: FORMULATION OF THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM, 1. The Mathematical Method in Economics, 2. Qualitative Discussions of the Problem of Rational Behavior, 3. The Notion of Utility, 4. Structure of the Theory: Solutions and Standards of Behavior, CHAPTER II: GENERAL FORMAL DESCRIPTIONS OF GAMES OF STRATEGY, 5. Introduction, 6. The Simplified Concept of a Game, 7. The Complete Concept of a Game, 8. Sets and Partitions, 9. The Set-Theoretical Description of a Game, 10. Axiomatic Formulation, 11. Strategies and the Final Simplifications of the Descriptions of a Game. CHAPTER III: ZERO-SUM TWO-PERSON GAMES: THEORY: 12. Preliminary Survey, 13. Functional Calculus, Strictly Determined Games, 15. Games with Perfect Information, 16. Linearity and Convexity, 17. Mixed Strategies. The Solution for All Games, CHAPTER IV: ZERO-SUM TWO-PERSON GAMES: EXAMPLES: 18. Some Elementary Games, 19. Poker and Bluffing, CHAPTER V: ZERO-SUM THREE-PERSON GAMES: 20. Preliminary Survey, 21. The Simple Majority Game of Three Persons, 22. Further Examples, 23. The General Case, 24. Discussion of an Objection, CHAPTER VI: FORMULATION OF THE GENERAL THEORY: ZERO-SUM n-PERSON GAMES: 25. The Characteristic Function, 26. Construction of a Game with a Given Characteristic Function, 27. Strategic Equivalence. Inessential and Essential Games, 28. Groups, Symmetry and Fairness, 29. Reconsideration of the Zero-Sum Three-Person Game, 30. The Exact Form of the General Definitions, 31. First Consequences, 32. Determination of All Solutions of the Essential Zero-Sum Three-Person Game, 33. Conclusions, CHAPTER VII: ZERO-SUM FOUR-PERSON GAMES: 34. Preliminary Survey, 35. Discussion of Some Special Points in the Cube Q, 36. Discussions of the Main Diagonals, 37. The Center and It's Environs, 38. A Family of Solutions for a Neighborhood of the Center. CHAPTER VIII: SOME REMARKS CONCERNING n > 5 PARTICIPANTS: 41. Composition and Decomposition, 42. Modification of the Theory, 43. The Decomposition Partition, 44. Decomposable Games. Further Extension of the Theory, 45. Limitations of the Excess. Structure of the Extended, 46. Determination of All Solutions of a Decomposable Game, 47. The Essential Three-Person Game in the New Theory, CHAPTER X: SIMPLE GAMES: 48. Winning and Losing Coalition and Games Where They Occur, 49. Characterization of the Simple Games, 50. The Majority Games and the Main Solution, 51. Methods for the Enumeration of All Simple Games, 52. The Simple Games for Small n, 53. The New Possibilities of Simple Games for n > 6, 54. Determination of All Solutions in Suitable Games, 55. The Simple Game [1, .1, n - 2]h, CHAPTER XI: GENERAL NON-ZERO-SUM GAMES: 56. Extension of the Theory, 57. The Characteristic Function and Related Topics, 58. Interpretation of the Characteristics Functions, 59. General Considerations, 60. The Solutions of All General Games with n < 3, 61. Economic Interpretation of the Results for n = 1, 2., 62. Economic Interpretation of the Results for n = 3: Special Case, 63. Economic Interpretation of the Results for n = 3: General Case, 64. The General Market, CHAPTER XII: EXTENSION OF THE CONCEPTS OF DOMINATION AND SOLUTION: 65. The Extension. Special Cases, 66. Generalizations of the Concept of Utility, 67. Discussion of an Example, Appendix: The Axiomatic Treatment of Utility, Index of Figures, Index of Names, Index of Subjects. -- 641 Pages. Collectible.

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