The World the Game Theorists Made by Paul Erickson
Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, the author shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.
Erickson has written a vital bookHe shows how game theory has survived despite its repeated failure to fulfill the highest hopes of its exponents. This is an outstanding and sure-to-be influential study of twentieth-century science and social thought. (Joel Isaac, Christ's College, Cambridge)
Paul Erickson is assistant professor of history, environmental studies, and science in society at Wesleyan University. He is coauthor of How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Carrer of Cold War Rationality, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226097176 |
| ISBN 10 | 022609717X |
| Title | The World the Game Theorists Made |
| Author | Paul Erickson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2015-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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