Economics 201 - Game Theory

Fall
2017
01
4.00
Michael Robinson
TTH 11:30AM-12:45PM
Mount Holyoke College
101026
Clapp Laboratory 127
mirobins@mtholyoke.edu
The course will illustrate and analyze the strategies used in making interrelated decisions. Concepts from game theory will be developed using examples and cases drawn from economics, business, politics, and even sports. Applications will include the Prisoner's Dilemma and related games, signaling, bargaining, voting and power, brinkmanship, and nuclear deterrence.
Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.