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Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, the author shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.

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"Erickson has written a vital book. He shows how game theory has survived despite its repeated failure to fulfill the highest hopes of its exponents. This is an outstanding and sure-to-be influential study of twentieth-century science and social thought." (Joel Isaac, Christ's College, Cambridge)

The World the Game Theorists Made

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 04/11/2015
    ISBN13: 9780226097176, 978-0226097176
    ISBN10: 022609717X
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    Book Synopsis
    Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, the author shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.

    Trade Review
    "Erickson has written a vital book. He shows how game theory has survived despite its repeated failure to fulfill the highest hopes of its exponents. This is an outstanding and sure-to-be influential study of twentieth-century science and social thought." (Joel Isaac, Christ's College, Cambridge)

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