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Binmore’s groundbreaking text on game theory explores the manner in which rational people should interact when they have conflicting interests. While Binmore uses a light touch to outline key developments in theory, the text remains a serious exposition of a serious topic. In addition, his unique story-telling approach allows students to immediately apply game-theoretic skills to simple problems. Each chapter ends with a host of challenging exercises to help students practice the skills they have learned. The highly anticipated revision, expected in 2003, will include more coverage of cooperative game theory and a more accessible presentation—with chapters broken up into smaller chunks and an abundance of economic examples integrated throughout the text.

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Joel J. Lerner “Financial Planning for the Utterly Confused”
McGraw-Hill | 2007-09-06 | ISBN: 0071477837 | 240 pages | PDF | 1,6 Mb

Make sense of your financial life-and plan for a prosperous future

When it comes to financial planning, it’s easy to become befuddled. But with the Sixth Edition of Financial Planning for the Utterly Confused, you’ll find guidance on planning for every contingency, from saving for a child’s education to making decisions about retirement, insurance, and real estate.
To make the right decisions about your financial future, it’s important to understand the wide array of investment options available. From Roths and 401(k)s to social security benefits and Medicare to mortgage and life insurance, you’ll have a helpful, easy-to-understand guide that takes the confusion out of financial planning.
You’ll also find:

• Investment and financial planning strategies especially suited to women and singles
• The right healthcare funds for seniors
• The ins and outs of the latest mutual funds
• Effective methods to save for college tuition

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Olivier Jean Blanchard, Stanley Fischer “Lectures on Macroeconomics”
The MIT Press | 1989-03-21 | ISBN: 0262022834 | 664 pages | PDF | 23,8 Mb

Lectures on Macroeconomics provides the first comprehensive description and evaluation of macroeconomic theory in many years. While the authors’ perspective is broad, they clearly state their assessment of what is important and what is not as they present the essence of macroeconomic theory today.

The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluctuations in output, unemployment and movement in prices. The most important fact of modern economic history is persistent long term growth, but as the book makes clear, this growth is far from steady. The authors analyze and explore these fluctuations.

Topics include consumption and investment; the Overlapping Generations Model; money; multiple equilibria, bubbles, and stability; the role of nominal rigidities; competitive equilibrium business cycles, nominal rigidities and economic fluctuations, goods, labor and credit markets; and monetary and fiscal policy issues. Each of chapters 2 through 9 discusses models appropriate to the topic. Chapter 10 then draws on the previous chapters, asks which models are the workhorses of macroeconomics, and sets the models out in convenient form. A concluding chapter analyzes the goals of economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and dynamic inconsistency.
Written as a text for graduate students with some background in macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics, Lectures on Macroeconomics also presents topics in a self contained way that makes it a suitable reference for professional economists.

O Blanchard είναι από τους πιο γνωστούς οικονομολόγους στον τομέα της Μακροοικονομικής.
Ειδικά το βιβλίο του Macroeconomics θεωρείται ως το πλέον κλασσικό εγχειρίδιο Μακροοικονομικής που κυκλοφορεί

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Ken Binmore “Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction ”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2007-11-02 | ISBN: 0199218463 | 144 pages | PDF | 1,6 Mb

Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year’s wage is playing a bargaining game. When opposing candidates in an election are playing a political game. The supermarket’s price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game. Game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way. Even when the players have not thought everything out in advance, game theory often works for the same reason that mindless animals sometimes end up behaving very cleverly: evolutionary forces eliminate irrational play because it is unfit. Game theory has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics, and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science. This iVery Short Introduction/i introduces the fascinating world of game theory, showing how it can be understood without mathematical equations, and revealing that everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees can be understood by anyone willing to think seriously about the problem.

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Αν η Θεωρία Παιγνίων είχε Βίβλο, τότε θα ήταν αυτό το
βιβλίο. Για όσους έχουν ασχοληθεί με παίγνια, το βιβλίο αυτό
δεν είναι καθόλου τυχαίο. Το επίπεδο του δε, δεν είναι απαγορευτικό
για όσους τώρα αρχίζουν την επαφή τους με το αντικείμενο.
Μάλιστα θα έλεγα πως, κάνει και για άτομα άσχετα προς τις οικονομικές επιστήμες.

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«Does Game Theory Work? The Bargaining Challenge (Economic Learning and Social Evolution)»
Ken Binmore | The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262026074 | 2007-04-02 | 400 pages | PDF | 6 Mb

This volume brings together all of Ken Binmore’s influential experimental papers on bargaining along with newly written commentary in which Binmore discusses the underlying game theory and addresses the criticism leveled at it by behavioral economists. When Binmore began his experimental work in the 1980s, conventional wisdom held that game theory would not work in the laboratory, but Binmore and other pioneers established that game theory can often predict the behavior of experienced players very well in favorable laboratory settings. The case of human bargaining behavior is particularly challenging for game theory. Everyone agrees that human behavior in real-life bargaining situations is governed at least partly by considerations of fairness, but what happens in a laboratory when such fairness considerations supposedly conflict with game-theoretic predictions? Behavioral economists, who emphasize the importance of other-regarding or social preferences, sometimes argue that their findings threaten traditional game theory. Binmore disputes both their interpretations of their findings and their claims about what game theorists think it reasonable to predict.

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Fiona Carmichael “Guide to Game Theory“
Financial Times/Prentice Hall | 2004-12-30 | ISBN: 0273684965 | 304 pages | PDF | 10 Mb

Εχει πάρα πολύ καλό “στήσιμο” ως βιβλίο , και είναι ευχάριστο στο διάβασμα με πλήθος παραδειγμάτων

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The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by “The Economist Newspaper Ltd” and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America.Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.

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