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 - 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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Re: game theory books
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.
A parasite feeding on bacteria growing on fungus growing on cow excrement? The only way the parasitic chain could get any longer would be if the cow excrement worked for the government.
- Smacky
Re: game theory books
PIGGYBACKING!
Um, so, any suggestions for (positive analysis) public choice theory books?
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Re: game theory books
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.
Whenever I catch so much as a glimpse of pr0n, I suddenly turn into a sex-crazed barbarian, slashing and clawing my way through whatever and whomever until I find something to put my weiner into. -- Taktix
Re: game theory books
And again you manage to strike me in my Achille's Heel.
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