This book presents some of the main ideas of game theory. It is designed to serve as a textbook for a one-semester graduate course consisting of about 28 meetings each of 90 minutes. The topics that we cover are those that we personally would include in such a one-semester course. We do not pretend to provide a complete reference book on game theory and do not necessarily regard the topics that we exclude as unimportant. Our selection inevitably reflects our own preferences and interests. (Were we to start writing the book now we would probably add two chapters, one on experimental game theory and one. | A COURSE IN GAME Theory MAFTTIN J O5E1ORNE Apiel RUHIN5TEIN Page iii A Course in Game Theory Martin J. Osborne Ariel Rubinstein The MIT Press Cambridge Massachusetts London England Page iv Copyright 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic. or mechanical means including photocopying recording or information storage and retrieval without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was typeset by the authors who are greatly indebted to Donald Knuth the creator of TEX Leslie Lamport the creator of LATEX and Eberhard Mattes the creator of emTEX for generously putting superlative software in the public domain. Camera-ready copy was produced by Type 2000 Mill Valley California and the book was printed and bound by The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Binghamton New York. Osborne Martin J. A course in game theory I Martin J. Osborne Ariel Rubinstein. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-15041-7. ISBN 0-262-65040-1 pbk. 1. Game theory. I. Rubinstein Ariel. II. Title. HB 1994 0353-dc20 94-8308 CIP Fifth printing .
