Temple University
Economics 1902
Principles of Microeconomics
Spring 2009
Follow the following links will take you to pages hosting
economics games on the web. These can serve as a good introduction to game theory.
- An elementary prisoner's dilemma at Bryn Mawr College.
- This iterated, spatial prisoner's dilemma from the
Netherlands allows you to
learn about altruism.
- A recent discovery: Parrando's
Paradox. If you do a web search you will find recent results that
suggest tthere is no poaradox.
- A chronology of game theory.
- Some Nobel links
John Nash,
John Harsanyi,
Richard Selten shared the
1994 Nobel for their work on non-cooperative games.
William Vickrey won the Nobel
in 1996. One of his noteworthy achievements was the modeling of auctions as a
strategic game.
- A portal for
courses, books, games and other interesting stuff.