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• Winner of A complete and accessible guide to game theory.

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This textbook provides a complete and accessible introduction to game theory and will prove especially valuable to business students and practising business-people. It covers all aspects of the subject: conflict and risk, negotiating, commitment as a bargaining technique, bidding, theoretical and empirical analysis of structuring incentives, trading risks, private information, and decisions about information acquisition. It ends with suggestions of how ideas from game theory might be used as an aid to reasoning through an actual strategic situation.

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9780195108033

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An excellent guide to understanding puzzling business situations....Anyone who has to think for a living will find this book a torch to illuminate murky situations. --Soundview Executive Book Summaries<br> Games, Strategies, and Managers will be helpful both for beginning managers and for advanced strategic planners. --Akira Omori, Arthur Andersen & Co.<br>

<br> An excellent guide to understanding puzzling business situations....Anyone who has to think for a living will find this book a torch to illuminate murky situations. --Soundview Executive Book Summaries<p><br> Games, Strategies, and Managers will be helpful both for beginning managers and for advanced strategic planners. --Akira Omori, Arthur Andersen & Co.<p><br>

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John McMillan is Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California at San Diego.

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