本书共分5章。第1章介绍了博弈论的基本概念和几个典型的例子。第2章和第3章分别介绍了完全信息下的静态博弈和动态博弈；第4章和第5章则介绍了不完全信息下的静态博弈和动态博弈。 　　本书深入浅出、通俗易懂，用简明的语言阐述深奥的经济学原理，并结合大量的案例，便于读者理解和掌握。从第2章开始，在每章后都附有习题，针对性强，以便读者巩固所学知识并检测学习效果。本书全面系统、条理清晰、侧重应用，是经济和管理类专业大学生、研究生博弈论及相关课程的理想教材和参考书，也可作为经济理论工作者、经济管理人员的参考用书，对实际工作有一定的指导意义。同时，对于那些对博弈论感兴趣的读者来说，本书也是一本值得推荐的博弈论入门图书。

An exposition of modern game theory suitable for advanced undergraduates. The book emphasizes the ideas behind the theory rather than their mathematical expression, but defines all concepts precisely. It covers strategic, extensive and coalitional games and includes the topics of repeated games, bargaining theory and evolutionary equilibrium.

《图说博弈论(生存竞争中的策略游戏活学版)》介绍了:我们的一生，可以看做是永不停息的博弈决策过程。无疑，在这个总是充满着利益冲突、甚至少不了一些尔虞我诈色彩的世界上，博弈论有助于我们认识问题的实质和找到更理性、也更符合自身利益的选择。为了自己，也为了与他人更好地合作，你需要学习一点博弈论的策略思维。正因如此，著名经济学家保罗·萨缪尔森说：“要想在现代社会做一个有文化的人，你必须对博弈论有一个大致了解。”

Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science, and the law. Strategies and Games grew out of Prajit Dutta's experience teaching a course in game theory over the last six years at Columbia University.The book is divided into three parts: Strategic Form Games and Their Applications, Extensive Form Games and Their Applications, and Asymmetric Information Games and Their Applications. The theoretical topics include dominance solutions, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, subgame perfect equilibrium, repeated games, dynamic games, Bayes-Nash equilibrium, mechanism design, auction theory, and signaling. An appendix presents a thorough discussion of single-agent decision theory, as well as the optimization and probability theory required for the course.Every chapter that introduces a new theoretical concept opens with examples and ends with a case study. Case studies include Global Warming and the Internet, Poison Pills, Treasury Bill Auctions, and Final Jeopardy. Each part of the book also contains several chapter-length applications including Bankruptcy Law, the NASDAQ market, OPEC, and the Commons problem. This is also the first text to provide a detailed analysis of dynamic strategic interaction.

Game theory has revolutionized economics research and teaching during the past two decades. There are few undergraduate or graduate courses in which it does not form a core component. Game theory is the study of multi-decision problems and such problems occur frequently in economics. Industrial organization provides many examples where firms must consider the reactions of others. But there are many other areas in which it is applicable - from individual workers vying for promotion to countries competing or colluding to choose trade policies. Bob Gibbons provides an introduction to the branches of game theory that have been widely applied in economics. He emphasizes the applications as much as the pure theory. This not only helps to teach the theory, but also illustrates the process of model building - the process of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal, game theoretic problem to be analyzed. The approach aims to serve as both an introduction to those who will go on to specialize as pure game-theorists. It also introduces game theory to those who will later construct (or at least use) game-theoretic models in applied fields of economics.