When I read your summary (and follow up post), I get the impression that you are suggesting it might be reasonable to study the book, follow-up on its ideas, or spend time looking to improve upon its shortcomings. It seems to me that paying attention to a 75 years old textbook (and drawing the attention of others to it) only makes sense for its historical value or if you manage to tease out some timeless lessons. Hm, or maybe to let people know that “no, it doesn’t make sense for you to read this”. But my impression is that neither of these was the goal? If not, what was the aim of the post then?
Thanks for the references! I now know that I’m interested specifically in cooperative game theory, and I see that Shoham & Leyton-Brown has a chapter on “coalitional game theory”, so I’ll take a look.
Related to that: An interesting take (not only) on cooperative game theory is Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict (from 1960, resp. second edition from 1980, but I am not aware of sufficient follow-up research on the ideas presented there). And there might be some useful references in CLR’s sequence on Cooperation, Conflict, and Transformative AI.
When I read your summary (and follow up post), I get the impression that you are suggesting it might be reasonable to study the book, follow-up on its ideas, or spend time looking to improve upon its shortcomings. It seems to me that paying attention to a 75 years old textbook (and drawing the attention of others to it) only makes sense for its historical value or if you manage to tease out some timeless lessons. Hm, or maybe to let people know that “no, it doesn’t make sense for you to read this”. But my impression is that neither of these was the goal? If not, what was the aim of the post then?
Why just not read something up-to-date instead?
Multiagent Systems, Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic,and Logical Foundations (by Yoav Shoham and Kevin Leyton-Brown, 2010) - which I read and can recommend (freely available online)
Game Theory (Maschler, Zamir, Solan, 2013) - which I didn’t read, but it should be good and has a 2020 version
Thanks for the references! I now know that I’m interested specifically in cooperative game theory, and I see that Shoham & Leyton-Brown has a chapter on “coalitional game theory”, so I’ll take a look.
Related to that: An interesting take (not only) on cooperative game theory is Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict (from 1960, resp. second edition from 1980, but I am not aware of sufficient follow-up research on the ideas presented there). And there might be some useful references in CLR’s sequence on Cooperation, Conflict, and Transformative AI.