Text and Schedule

Herbert Gintis, Game Theory Evolving, Princeton University Press, 2000, $40.70 (Amazon).

Date	Chapter in Gintis	Topic
Aug. 22 - 24	1, 2	Backward induction
Aug. 27 - 31	2	Backward induction
Sept. 5 - Sept. 7	2	Eliminating dominated strategies
Sept. 10 - 14	2, 1, 3	Eliminating dominated strategies, pure strategy Nash equilibria
Sept. 17 - 21	3	Pure strategy Nash equilibria, games with incomplete information
Sept. 24	3	Games with incomplete information
Sept. 26		Review
Sept. 28		Test on Chapters 1 - 3
Oct. 1 - 5	4	Mixed strategy Nash equilibria
Oct. 8 - 10	4	Mixed strategy Nash equilibria
Oct. 15 - 19	5	Threats, promises, subgame perfect equilibria
Oct. 22 - 26	6, 7	Repeated games, symmetric games
Oct. 29 - Nov. 2	7	Symmetric games, evolutionary stability
Nov. 5 - Nov. 9	7, 8	Evolutionary stability, dynamical systems
Nov. 12		Review
Nov. 14		Test on Chapters 4 - 7
Nov. 16	8	Dynamical systems
Nov. 19	9	Evolutionary dynamics
Nov. 26--30	9, 11	Evolutionary dynamics, fairness and altruism
Dec. 3 - Dec. 7	11	Fairness and altruism

The final exam is Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., in the usual room.