Text and Schedule

Herbert Gintis, Game Theory Evolving, Princeton University Press, 2000, $39.60 (Amazon).

Date	Chapter in Gintis	Topic
Aug. 20 - 22	1, 2	Backward induction
Aug. 25 - 29	2	Backward induction
Sept. 3 - Sept. 5	2	Eliminating dominated strategies
Sept. 8 - 12	2, 1, 3	Eliminating dominated strategies, pure strategy Nash equilibria
Sept. 15 - 19	3	Pure strategy Nash equilibria, games with incomplete information
Sept. 22	3	Games with incomplete information
Sept. 24		Review
Sept. 26		Test on Chapters 1 - 3
Sept. 29 - Oct. 3	4	Mixed strategy Nash equilibria
Oct. 6 - 8	4	Mixed strategy Nash equilibria
Oct. 13 - 17	5	Threats, promises, subgame perfect equilibria
Oct. 20 - 24	6, 7	Repeated games, symmetric games
Oct. 27 - 31	7	Symmetric games, evolutionary stability
Nov. 3 - Nov. 7	7, 8	Evolutionary stability, dynamical systems
Nov. 10		Review
Nov. 12		Test on Chapters 4 - 7
Nov. 14	8	Dynamical systems
Nov. 17 - 21	9	Evolutionary dynamics
Nov. 24	9	Evolutionary dynamics
Dec. 1 - Dec. 5	11	Fairness and altruism

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