Collected Papers by Aumann Robert (8 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xi, 786 pp; xiii, 792 pp. Original boards, large 8vo. Ink stripe on each bottom edge, else a Near Fine set, in near fine dust jackets. ISBN for Vol. 1: 0262011549. 'Robert Aumann's groundbreaking career in game theory has spanned over 35 years. These two volumes provide convenient access to all of his major research--from his doctoral dissertation in 1956 to papers as recent as January 1995. Threaded through all of Aumann's work (symbolized in his thesis on knots) is the study of relationships between different ideas, between different phenomena, and between ideas and phenomena. 'When you look closely at one scientific idea,' writes Aumann, 'you find it hitched to all others. It is these hitches that I have tried to study.' The papers are organized in several categories: general, knot theory, decision theory (utility and subjective probability), strategic games, coalitional games, and mathematical methods. Aumann has written an introduction to each of these groups that briefly describes the content and background of each paper, including the motivation and the research process, and relates it to other work in the collection and to work by others. There is also a citation index that allows readers to trace the considerable body of literature which cites Aumann's own work' (MIT Press Web site). The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005 was awarded jointly to Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling 'for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xi, 786 pp; xiii, 792 pp. Original boards, large 8vo. Ink stripe on each bottom edge, else a Near Fine set, in near fine dust jackets. ISBN for Vol. 2: 9780262011556. 'Robert Aumann's groundbreaking career in game theory has spanned over 35 years. These two volumes provide convenient access to all of his major research--from his doctoral dissertation in 1956 to papers as recent as January 1995. Threaded through all of Aumann's work (symbolized in his thesis on knots) is the study of relationships between different ideas, between different phenomena, and between ideas and phenomena. 'When you look closely at one scientific idea,' writes Aumann, 'you find it hitched to all others. It is these hitches that I have tried to study.' The papers are organized in several categories: general, knot theory, decision theory (utility and subjective probability), strategic games, coalitional games, and mathematical methods. Aumann has written an introduction to each of these groups that briefly describes the content and background of each paper, including the motivation and the research process, and relates it to other work in the collection and to work by others. There is also a citation index that allows readers to trace the considerable body of literature which cites Aumann's own work' (MIT Press Web site). The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005 was awarded jointly to Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling 'for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.'.…

orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 26x18cm, xiii,792 pp Contains 41 papers. Includes: Von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions to Cooperative Games without Side Payments; The Core of a Cooperative Game without Side Payments; Introduction to "Some Thought on the Theory of Cooperative Games"; A Survey of Cooperative Games without Side Payments; The Bargaining Set for Cooperative Games; A Method of Computing the Kernal of n-Person Games; Cooperative Games with Coalition Structures; Game- Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud; Markets with a Continuum of Traders; Existence of Competitive Equilibria in Markets with a Continuum of Traders; Disadvantageous Monopolies; A Note on Gale's Example; On the Rate of Convergence of the Core; Values of Markets wiuth a Continuum of Traders; Power & Taxes; Power & Taxes in a Multi-Commodity Economy; Core & Value for a Public Goods Economy: An Example; Power & Public Goods; Voting for Public Goods; Values of Markets with Satiation or Fixed Prices; Economic Applications of the Shapley Value; Endogenous Formation on Links Between Players and of Coalitions: An Application of the Shapley Value; An Axiomatization of the Non-Transferable Utility Value;Values for Games without Side Payments: Some Difficulties with Current Concepts; In the Existence and Interpretation on Value Allocaiton; On the Non-Transferable Utility Value: A Comment on the Roth-Shafer Examples; Non-Symmetric Cardinal Value Allocations; Recent Developments in the Theory of the Shapley's Value; Spaces of Measurable Transformation. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…