Robert Leonard (Universite du Quebec a Montreal)

Broschiertes Buch

Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory

From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960

Beschreibung

This book explores the creation of game theory by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. A dramatic reconstruction shows how game theory was related to debates in economics and mathematics, the social and political upheaval of the period, and the dramatic personal histories of its two architects.

Autor

A Dublin native, Robert Leonard writes about the history of twentieth-century economics and the social sciences in scientific and cultural context. His work has appeared in a range of journals in economics and the history of science, including the Economic Journal, History of Political Economy and Isis. His 1995 article in the Journal of Economic Literature, from which the present book grew, won the Best Article Award of the History of Economics Society. Leonard is Professor of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Produktdetails

• Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781107609266
• ISBN-10: 1107609267
• Artikelnr.: 36028452