| Description |
1 online resource (x, 390 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Series |
Historical perspectives on modern economics |
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Historical perspectives on modern economics.
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| Contents |
"The strangest states of mind": chess, psychology and Emanuel Lasker's Kampf -- "Deeply rooted, yet alien" : Hungarian Jews and mathematicians -- From Budapest to Göttingen: an apprenticeship in modern mathematics -- "The futile search for the perfect formula": Von Neumann's minimax theorem -- Equilibrium on trial: the Austrian interwar critics -- Wrestling with complexity: Wirtschaftsprognose and beyond -- Ethics and the excluded middle: Karl Menger and social science in interwar Vienna -- From austroliberalism to Anschluss: Morgenstern and the Viennese Economists in the 1930's -- Mathematics and the social order: Von Neumann's return to game theory -- Ars combinatoria: creating the Theory of games -- Morgenstern's catharsis -- Von Neumann's war -- Social science and the "present danger": game theory and psychology at the RAND Corporation, 1946-1960 |
| Summary |
"Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amidst discussions of the psychology and mathematics of chess in Germany and fin-de-siecle Austro-Hungary. In the 1930s, on the cusp of anti-semitism and political upheaval, it was developed by von Neumann into an ambitious theory of social organization. It was shaped still further by its use in combat analysis in World War II and during the Cold War. Interweaving accounts of the period's economics, science, and mathematics, and drawing on the private lives of von Neumann and Morgenstern, Robert Leonard provides a detailed reconstruction of a complex historical drama."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-379) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957
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Morgenstern, Oskar, 1902-1977.
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| SUBJECT |
Morgenstern, Oskar, 1902-1977 fast |
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Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957 fast |
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Morgenstern, Oskar 1902-1977 gnd |
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Neumann, John von. idsbb |
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Morgenstern, Oskar. idsbb |
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Neumann, John von. idszbz |
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Morgenstern, Oskar. idszbz |
| Subject |
Game theory -- History
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MATHEMATICS -- Applied.
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MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General.
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Game theory
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Spieltheorie
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Speltheorie.
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Besliskunde.
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Spieltheorie -- Geschichte.
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Spieltheorie.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316103753 |
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1316103757 |
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9780511778278 |
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0511778279 |
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9781316100837 |
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9781316099933 |
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9781316098820 |
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9781316101476 |
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1316098400 |
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9781316098400 |
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1316102246 |
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9781316102244 |
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