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Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory

Roger B. Myerson

J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University

Journal of Economic Literature 1999

John Nash's formulation of noncooperative game theory was one of the great breakthroughs in the history of social science. Nash's work in this area is reviewed in its historical context to better understand how the fundamental ideas of noncooperative game theory were developed and how they changed the course of economic theory.

DOI
10.1257/jel.37.3.1067
Volume
37 (3)
Pages
1067-1082
Language
en
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