<center><H1> Readings in Games and Information

Readings in Games and Information

(November 22, 1999)

Each of the 14 chapters would have a two-page introduction. Each chapter has one cartoon. The numbers at the end of most items are the word counts and cast-off page counts. The listed numbers add to 260, which with 14 cartoons and 28 introduction pages comes to 302 pages. The 10 unmarked items add to perhaps 24 (for the 8 short ones) plus 17 (for the 2 long ones), a total of 41 pages, for a grand total of 343 pages, 10 under the limit. The cost of obtaining copyright may knock out some of these items, shortening it further. That cost will be a major element in deciding which cartoons to use.

I have starred the entries which I am mailing to Blackwell on November 22, 1999.

*PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: THE RULES OF THE GAME
1. Straffin, Philip, ``The Prisoner's Dilemma,'' UMAP Journal. 1: 101-3. 770
2. Tucker, Albert, ``A Two-Person Dilemma,'' May 1950 notes. 300.1.
3. Nash, John ``Equilibrium Points in n-Person Games,'' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 36: 48-9 (January 1950). 434.1.
4. Nash, John, ``Non-Cooperative Games,'' Annals of Mathematics, 54: 286-95 (September 1951). 4606.10.
5. "To Ensure High Prices, Some Haulers Have Been Known to Break the Rules," Jeff Bailey, Wall Street Journal, 8 November 1993, p. A6. 1104.2.
6. *"Cash Flow: 'Pay to Play' is Banned, but Muni-Bond Firms Keep the Game Going," Wall Street Journal, 13 May 1998, p. A1.
7. Nasar, Sylvia,"School of Genius (Princeton, Fall 1948)," pp. 58-65 of A Beautiful Mind, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. 3336.7.
8. Cartoon: Ratbert the Consultant. Dilbert, United Features Syndicate, (1997). 1.
CHAPTER 2: INFORMATION
1. Ayres, Ian and Jeremy Bulow, ``The Donation Booth,'' The Boston Review , December-January 1998, pp. 26-27. 1859.4.
2. Livy,"The Horatii and the Curiatii," The Early History of Rome, Section 1.23, A. Selincourt, translator, Harmandsworth, England: Penguin, 1960. 1608.3.
3. Rothkopf, Michael, ``TREES-- A Decisionmaker's Lament,'' Operations Research, 28: 3 (January/February 1980). 175.1.
4. *Lachman, Judith ``Knowing and Showing Economics and Law, '' (A review of An Introduction to Law and Economics, A. Mitchell Polinsky (1983)) Yale Law Journal, 93: 1587, 1598-1605 (July 1984).
5. * Cartoon: "All Those in Favor, Say 'Aye'," cartoon, The New Yorker Book of Business Cartoons, edited by Robert Mankoff, Princeton: Bloomberg Press, 1998.
CHAPTER 3: MIXED STRATEGIES
1. * McDonald, John and John Tukey (1949) ``Colonel Blotto: A Problem of Military Strategy,'' Fortune p. 102 (June 1949).
2. * ``Dutch Accountants Take on a Formidable Task: Ferreting Out `Cheaters' in the Ranks of OPEC,'' Wall Street Journal ,Paul Hemp, 26 February 1985, p. 1.
3. ``Shipping Price-Fixing Pacts Hurt Consumers, Critics Say,'' Wall Street Journal, Anna Mathews, 7 October 1997.2022.4.
4. Stigler, George, ``The Conference Handbook,'' Journal of Political Economy, 85: 441-443 (April 1977). 960.2.
5. Cartoon: "Very Guilty", Herman Unger, Universal Press Syndicate, (1988). 1.
CHAPTER 4: DYNAMIC GAMES
1. Zermelo, Ernst, ``On An Application of Set Theory to the Game of Chess,'' Proceedings, Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians. 2: 501-4 (1913). Translated by Ulrich Schwalbe and Paul Walker, pp. 8-10 of ``Zermelo and the Early History of Game Theory,'' U. of Canterbury Economics working paper, August 14, 1997. 1468. 3.
2. * Schelling, Thomas,pp. 119-150 of Chapter 5 of The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960. 13206. 24. Reduced by 1/4, by not using the full chapter, yielding 18 pages.
3. *Shubik, Martin (1954) ``Does the Fittest Necessarily Survive?'' pp. 43-46 of Readings in Game Theory and Political Behavior , edited by Martin Shubik, Doubleday: Garden City, New York (1954).
4. "Shooting the Bird's Eye," pp. 18-19 of The Five Sons of King Pandu: The Story of the Mahabharata , adapted from the Kisari Ganguli translation by Elizabeth Seeger. New York: William R. Scott, Inc. 1967. 374. 1.
5. * Cartoon: ``That's It? That's Peer Review?'' S. Harris. 1.
CHAPTER 5: REPEATED GAMES
1. Axelrod, Robert \& William Hamilton, ``The Evolution of Cooperation,'' Science. 211, 4489: 1390-96 (March 1981). 8386.13.
2. Barro, Robert,"This Tax Amnesty Will Only Work Once," Wall Street Journal, 7 August 1986. 819.2.
3. *`Fare Warning: How Airlines Trade Price Plans,'' Wall Street Journal, 9 October 1990.
4. Roberts, Harry and Roman Weil, ``The University of Chicago. Starting Research Early,'' (August 14, 1970). 3587.7.
5. Cartoon: ``Einstein Discovers that Time is Actually Money,'' Gary Larson.1.
CHAPTER 6: DYNAMIC GAMES WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
1. Kreps, David, Paul Milgrom, John Roberts, and Robert Wilson,"Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma," Journal of Economic Theory 27: 245-52 (1982). 3502.6.
2. Farrell, Joseph, ``Cheap Talk, Coordination, and Entry,'' Rand Journal of Economics, 18: 34-39 (Spring 1987). 4028.7.
3. Pileggi,Nicholas, Wise Guy:Life in a Mafia Family, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985, pp. 267-269. 1908.3.
4. *Cartoon: "Say, I think I see where we went off..." New Yorker. 1.
CHAPTER 7: MORAL HAZARD
1. Farrell, Joseph, ``Monopoly Slack and Competitive Rigor: A Simple Model, '' MIT mimeo. February 1983. 1671. 4.
2. Rubinstein, Ariel, ``An Optimal Conviction Expectation Regime for Offenses that May Have Been Committed by Accident,'' in Applied Game Theory, 406-413, Wurzburg: Physica-Verlag, 1979. 3468. 7.
3. *``Bonded Worker Is No Guarantee of a Perfect Job,'' Wall Street Journal , Teri Agins, 30 September 1985, p. 1.
4. * Cartoon: "Look, Ted! We get paid the same as you but all we're doing is standing around and flicking our fingers." Dilbert, Scott Adams. 1.
CHAPTER 8: FURTHER TOPICS IN MORAL HAZARD
1. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, p. 207. 836. 2.
2. "Examples of Plea Bargains". Excerpted from" Mezzanatto and the Economics of Self Incrimination," Cardozo Law Review, (1998). 364. 1.
3. "Unions Say Auto Firms Use Interplant Rivalry to Raise Work Quotas," Wall Street Journal,Dale Buss, 8 November 1983, p. 1. 2354. 5.
4. * Cartoon: "Dilbert, I want you to manage Wally's Project while he's on vacation in Aruba." Dilbert, Scott Adams.
CHAPTER 9: ADVERSE SELECTION
1. Akerlof, George, ``The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism,'' Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84: 488-500 (August 1970). 5590.11.
2. "Bagehot, Walter" (pseudonym for Jack Treynor), ``The Only Game in Town,'' Financial Analysts Journal, 27: 12-14,22 (March/April 1971). 2227.5.
3. * ``Are Advertisers Ready to Pay Their Viewers?'' Wall Street Journal, Bart Ziegler, 14 November 1996. 902. 2.
4. Davis, Philip Reuben Hersh and Elena Marchisotto"The Creation of New Mathematics: An Application of the Lakatos Heuristic," pp. 291-298 of The Mathematical Experience, Birkhauser: 1981. 1975. 4.
5. Cartoon: "Frank's Neurosurgery," Gary Larson, Far Side. 1.
CHAPTER 9A: MECHANISM DESIGN IN ADVERSE SELECTION AND MORAL HAZARD WITH HIDDEN INFORMATION
1. Gonik, Jacob, ``Tie Salesmen's Bonuses to their Forecasts, '' Harvard Business Review, 56: 116-23 (May/June 1978). 5966.10.
2. * ``Car-Buying Services Can Save Money, Especially for Those Who Hate Haggling, '' Wall Street Journal , Melinda Guiles, 23 April 1985, p. 1.
3. Varian, Hal,"How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time," From Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, edited by Michael Szenberg, University of Michigan Press, 1999. 6025. 11.
4. *Cartoon: "Of course that's only an estimate..." Hoff, New Yorker. 1.
CHAPTER 10: SIGNALLING
1. *Bagwell, Kyle and Michael Riordan, "High and Declining Prices Signal Product Quality," The American Economic Review. 81: 224-239 (March 1991). Just pp. 224-232 and 237-239.
2. Davis, John ``The Argument of an Appeal" from American Bar Association Journal, 26: 895-909 (December 1940). 5541. 9.
3. Cartoon: "Clown," Charles Barsotti, Playboy, 1981. 1.
CHAPTER 11: BARGAINING
1. Nash, John, ``The Bargaining Problem,'' Econometrica, 18:155-62 (April 1950). 2350. 5.
2. Rubinstein, Ariel, ``Perfect Equilibrium in a Bargaining Model'' Econometrica, 50: 97-109 (January 1982). 5451. 10.
3. * ``UPS Faces More Than $1 Billion A Year in New Labor Expenses: Pact Calls for Substantial Pay Increases, Full-Time Jobs and A Union Pension Plan,'' Wall Street Journal , Douglas A. Blackmon, Martha Brannigan, Glenn Burkins and Laura Jereski, August 20, 1997.
4. * Cartoon: ``Whatever Happened to Elegant Solutions?'' S. Harris, 1.
CHAPTER 12: AUCTIONS
1. Shubik, Martin, ``The Dollar Auction Game: A Paradox in Noncooperative Behavior and Escalation,'' Journal of Conflict Resolution, 15: 109-11 (March 1971). 1591. 4.
2. McAfee, R. Preston and John McMillan, ``Analyzing the Airwaves Auction,'' Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10:159-170 (Winter 1996). 9654. 17.
3. * ``At Many Auctions, Illegal Bidding Thrives As a Longtime Practice Among Dealers,'' Wall Street Journal ,Meg Cox, 19 February 1988.
4. *Cartoon: "The next item up for bid is the presidency of the United States..." Rogers,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1999. United Features Syndicate.
CHAPTER 13. PRICING
1. Hotelling, Harold (1929) ``Stability in Competition,'' Economic Journal, 39: 41-57 (March 1929). 7027. 12.
2. Edgeworth, Francis,"The Mathematical Economics of Professor Amoroso," Economic Journal, 30: 400-407 (September 1922). 3509. 6.
3. D'Aspremont, Claude, J. Gabszewicz, & Jacques Thisse, ``On Hotelling's `Stability of Competition', '' Econometrica, 47: 1145-50 (September 1979). 2107. 5.
4. Shaked, Avner, ``Existence and Computation of Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium for 3-Firms Location Problem,'' Journal of Industrial Economics, 31: 93-6 (September/December 1982). 1522. 3.
5. * ``Busting a Trust: Electrical Contractors Reel Under Charges That They Rigged Bids,'' Andy Pasztor, Wall Street Journal , 29 November 1985, p. 1.
6. *Cartoon: "Isn't it Great That we don't get any more pesky calls during dinner asking us to switch long-distance companies?" Rogers,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1999. United Features Syndicate.
CHAPTER 14 ENTRY
1. Fudenberg, Drew & Jean Tirole,"The Fat-Cat Effect, The Puppy-Dog Ploy, and the Lean and Hungry Look,'' American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 74: 361-66 (May 1984). 3837. 7.
2. * "Drugs: Novel Heart-Drug Deal Protects Sales, Spurs Suit" Wall Street Journal, ; By Ralph T. King Jr., 21 August 1998, p. B1.
3. Rasmusen, Eric, ``Notes on Writing, Talking, and Listening.''. 8375. 14.
4. ``Henry and the Candy Shop,'' cartoon, Carl Anderson, Henry 4-16-. 1.
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