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Game Theory – Roger A McCain

by Myrna Posted on February 15, 2020

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Game Theory

A Nontechnical Introduction to the Analysis of Strategy

Roger A McCain

Genre: Mathematics

Price: $41.99

Publish Date: August 2, 2010

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Seller: Ingram DV LLC


This book serves as an introduction to game theory for students with no prior game theory knowledge, or with limited background in economics and mathematics. It is specifically designed to provide an intuitive and accessible interdisciplinary approach to game theory, while simultaneously exploring cooperative games, repeated play, correlated equilibrium, and a range of applications. The Instructor Manual is available upon request for all instructors who adopt this book as a course text. Please send your request to sales@wspc.com. Contents: FundamentalsTwo-Person GamesLarger Numbers and UncertaintyGames in Extensive Form and Repeated PlayCooperationBehavioral and Evolutionary Game TheorySelected Applications Readership: Undergraduates and graduates studying game theory or those interested in knowing more about game theory.

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Game Theory – Roger A McCain

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Being a big fish in a small pond (or, uh, the ocean) could get you killed.

by LucianaCurrie Posted on September 14, 2016

Turns out the largest sea creatures are most likely to go extinct, according to research published today in Science.

The research, led by Stanford’s Jonathan Payne, compared modern marine vertebrates and mollusks to their ancestors in the fossil record, all the way up to the last mass extinction 66 million years ago. Today, unlike in any previous time studied, a 10 percent increase in body size means a 13 percent increase in extinction risk.

This differs from a run-of-the-mill mass extinction, when your likelihood of dying off has a lot more to do with, say, where you live in the ocean or where you fall on the evolutionary tree.

And the biggest-is-not-best pattern has human fingerprints all over it — just think of the mastodon and moa.

“Humans, with our technology, have made ourselves into predators that can go after very large animals,” says Payne. But there’s an upside. Unlike the huge environmental changes that spurred mass extinctions in the past (and perhaps the near future), human activity has been known to do a quick 180.

After all, the oceans have seen very little extinction in the Anthropocene. “We still have a huge opportunity to save almost everything,” Payne says.

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Being a big fish in a small pond (or, uh, the ocean) could get you killed.

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