Game Theory: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

by Yanis Varoufakis (Editor)

Game theory is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of the social sciences. The articles gathered here chart the intellectual history of game theory from its place in the Enlightenment tradition, through the explosion of literature in the late 1970s, to issues of current and emerging debates.
This extensively indexed set will be a valuable reference tool to researchers in sociology and politics, as well as economics.

Genres: Economics, Politics

1640 pages, Hardcover

First published March 29, 2001

About the author

Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. A former member of Syriza, he served as Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.