Game theory is the study of how people play games. What is the proper strategy to employ when the game situation is in constant flux and other players are forming different strategies? Since 1944, game theory has been applied to a variety of situations including economics, politics, philosophy, social psychology, and biology. This book serves as an introduction to game theory and requires no more math skills tha basic algebra.

Part I. Two-Person Zero-Sum Games : 1. The nature of games -- 2. Matrix games : dominance and saddle points -- 3. Matrix games : mixed strategies -- 4. Application to anthropology : Jamaican fishing -- 5. Application to warfare : guerillas, police, and missiles -- 6. Application to philosophy : Newcomb's problem and free will -- 7. Game trees -- 8. Application to business : competitive decision making -- 9. Utility theory -- 10. Games against nature -- Part II. Two-Person Non-Zero-Sum Games : 11. Nash equilibria and non-cooperative solutions -- 12. The prisoner's dilemma -- 13. Application to social psychology : trust, suspicion, and the F-Scale -- 14. Strategic moves -- 15. Application to biology : evolutionarily stable strategies -- 16. The Nash arbitration scheme and cooperative solutions -- 17. Application to business : management-labor arbitration -- 18. Application to economics : the duopoly problem -- Part III. N-Person Games : 19. An introduction to N-Person games -- 20. Applications to politics : strategic voting -- 21. N-Person prisoner's dilemma -- 22. Application to athletics : prisoner's dilemma and the football draft -- 23. Imputations, domination, and stable set -- 24. Application to anthropology : pathan organization -- 25. The core -- 26. The Shapley value -- 27. Application to politics : the Shapley-Shubik power index -- 28. Application to politics : the Banzhaf index and the Canadian constitution -- 29. Bargaining sets -- 30. Application to politics : parliamentary coalitions -- 31. The nucleolus and the Gately point -- 32. Application to economics : cost allocations in India -- 33. The value of game theory.