game theory books

dhex's picture

so yeah i liked the evolution of cooperation and wanted to sign up for its newsletter.

any recommendations? jackass tard 101 style stuff is fine.

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Jake's picture

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I haven't read the Evolution of Cooperation, but I own this book, and that's what got me interested in the whole game theory idea. It starts off assuming you don't know jack about game theory, and works its way up from really basic stuff to more complex things.

Now I want to go reread it again.

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GinSlinger's picture

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PIGGYBACKING!

Um, so, any suggestions for (positive analysis) public choice theory books?

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Timothy's picture

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GinSlinger - The only ones I know have a lot of calculus in them. If you're interested in tax issues, mostly from a normative perspective (but although I disagree with the value premise I think normative econ has value!), Peter Lambert's book is really, really great. I learned most of the public choice stuff from either primary sources or a book that my prof was working on at the time and gave to us for free. I don't know if it's been published.

The UO department is using Grueber (9780716766315) for their "Issues in Public Economics" elective, which is 300-level and does not require calculus, so you might try to pick up a used or older version of that.

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GinSlinger's picture

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Timothy wrote:
GinSlinger - The only ones I know have a lot of calculus in them.

And again you manage to strike me in my Achille's Heel.

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