Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory

In this innovative textbook, Joel Watson adopts a refreshing new format for teaching game theory to advanced undergraduates. The book is rigorous and mathematically precise but also extremely careful in its focus on using the simplest possible models and least complicated mathematics necessary. Another innovation of the book is the way in incorporates elements of contemporary contract theory into the exposition, in a format that is highly engaging for students and easily adapted to the standard coverage familiar to teachers.

Joel Watson is professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Watson’s work has been published in a variety of leading journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Games and Economic Behavior.
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.