ECON 159: Game Theory

ECON 159: Game Theory (Fall 2007, Open Yale Courses). Taught by Professor Ben Polak, this course provides an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Introduction