Game Theory Evolving
a problem-centered introduction to modeling strategic interaction
by Herbert M. Gintis · first published 2000
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This revised edition contains new material & shows students how to apply game theory to model human behaviour in ways that reflect the special nature of sociality & individuality. It continues its in-depth look at cooperation in teams, agent-based simulations, experimental economics, & the evolution & diffusion of preferences.
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…studying it there. One of his colleagues/research partners has a good evolutionary game theory book available for free on his website for anyone interested: http://people.umass.edu/gintis/ It's called "Game Theory Evolving"
on “Born Poor? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it” ↗You want to check out Game Theory Evolving, by Herbert Gintis, if you haven't already. It talks about exactly this kind of stuff.
on “The secret to winning at rock, paper, scissors” ↗The question of hedonic bias is more complex than the article indicates. I would recommend Game Theory Evolving by Herbert Gintis. Gintis talks about human short-term bias and hyperbolic discounting and shows that this is often not as "irrational" as it seems (look especially at Chapter 11). Still it's a great…
on “Your Work Habits and the Happiness Treadmill” ↗I really enjoyed Gintis's 'Game Theory Evolving', which focuses on evolutionary game theory. Mind you, I was a biologist when I was working with it, so that was much more relevant to what I was thinking about.
on “Game Theory: Open Access textbook” ↗…anyone's behavior. Specifically, if everyone was "homo-economicus", the neoclassical concept of the risk-neutral actor, society itself would collapse in fairly short order. I'd recommend Herbert Gintis, Game Theory Evolving, for more background on this.
on “Stuck: Why the rent and mortgage-burdened don’t always move to cheaper pastures” ↗…modify mathematical logic for inappropriate purposes. Instead, I'd recommend an evolutionary-game theoretic approach to understanding everyday interactions. See: https://books.google.com/books/about/Game_Theory_Evolving.ht...
on “On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality (2001)” ↗Indeed, I would recommend Game Theory Evolving by Herb Ginitis. Human beings have a strong, repeat strong bias toward retaliating to maintain fairness. Varies culturally to only a small extent. Anything that raises the possibility that you'll just…
on “Learning from Wakemate - Smart announcements” ↗…structure of modern society as it's existed since, say 1960 or early. The text may seem opaque but if you read it closely, you actually need any explanatory texts, though they exist. Honorable mention: Game Theory Evolving, Herb Ginitus Biochemical Individuality, Roger J. William The Working Brain, Luria Using Your Brain For A Change, Bandler The User Illusion, Norretrander How The Beattles Destroyed Rock And Roll, Elijah…
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗…incompatible with findings of reciprocal altruism in evolutionary biology and experimental game theory. "So, out of curiosity, do these "results in evolutionary game theory" have a source?" Here's one: "Game Theory Evolving" by Herbert Gintis; see Chapter 11. http://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Evolving-Herbert-Gintis/dp...
on “Ask YC: Why the degree?” ↗…notions have both normative and positive aspects; the positive aspects of these notions (and others, related to class dominance) can be captured in game theoretic terms--and should be. In the Preface to Game Theory Evolving, economist Herbert Gintis suggested that the mathematical methods of non-cooperative (and cooperative) game theory developed by von Neumann and Morgenstern, Nash and their successors–Gintis among them–have…
on “Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefit” ↗…About the Brain http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/learning-how-littl... [2] Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini, Harper Business [3] Game theory Evolving, Herbert Gintis, Princeton
on “A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (2011)” ↗What I have been reading recently is "Game Theory Evolving" by Herbert Gintis. The Wikipedia articles on signaling theory and evolutionary game theory are useful too.
on “On Elitism” ↗…winner of an auction pays the second-highest bid. This strategy leads the bidders to bid the true value of the auctioned item. One proof of this assertion can be found in the solution to an exercise in Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction (Second Edition), by Herbert Gintis. It appears that structured procrastination is a two-player game that pits the present self against…
on “Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term” ↗…particular path is sensitive to random initial conditions. Interestingly, even for a simple game where a non-signaling altruistic solution dominates, a signaling solution reliably emerges and converges. Game Theory Evolving, Herbert Gintis, 2000 (first edition), pp 321-323.
on “Individual behavior in clonal fish despite near-identical rearing conditions” ↗