The Work of John Nash in Game Theory
THE WORK OF JOHN NASH IN GAME THEORY Nobel Seminar, December 8, 1994 (The document that follows is edited version of a seminar devoted to the contributions to game theory of John Nash. The participants, in the order of their appearance, were: H AROLD W. KUHN Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA JOHN C. HARSANYI The Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA R EINHARD SELTEN Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Adenauerallee 24 - 42, D-53113 Bonn, Germany JÖRGEN W. WEIBULL, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden ERIC VAN DAMME Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlands JOHN F. NASH , JR Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA PETER HAMMERSTEIN , Max-Planck-Institute für Verhaltens Physiologie, 82319 Seewiesen, Germany, is the co-author of the intervention of Professor Selten. A unified bibliography for the seminar is provided at the end.) KUHN It gives me great pleasure to chair this seminar on the importance of Nash’s work on the occasion of the first Nobel award that recognizes the central importance of game theory in current economic theory. I shall be joined by two colleagues whom I’ve known for over thirty years, John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten, two new friends, Jörgen Weibull and Eric van Damme, and John Nash, whom I’ve known since we were graduate students together in Princeton forty-six years ago. The timing of these awards has historical significance, since this year is the fiftieth anniversary of the publicationof “The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior” [52] by the Princeton University Press.
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