Moshe Hoffman, Erez Yoeli

Hidden Games (eBook, ePUB)

The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy

'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams

'This is a book I will come back to again and again' Nichola Raihani

How game theory - the ultimate theory of rationality - explains irrational behaviour.

In Hidden Games, MIT economists Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioural economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling behaviour, from the mechanics of Stockholm syndrome and internalised misogyny to why we help strangers and have a sense of fairness.

Fun and powerfully insightful, Hidden Games is an eye-opening argument for using game theory to explain all the irrational things we think, feel, and do and will change how you think forever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529376852
• Artikelnr.: 63048517

Autorenporträt

Moshe Hoffman (Author)
Moshe Hoffman is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group and lecturer at Harvard's department of economics. His research focuses on using game theory to decipher the motives that shape our behaviour.

Erez Yoeli (Author)
Erez Yoeli is a research associate at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Yoeli collaborates with governments, non-profits, and companies to apply the lessons of his research into altruism towards addressing real-world challenges.

Rezensionen

Skillfully wielding the instruments of game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli entertainingly cut away the veneer of social life to expose the Hidden Games underlying our lavish tastes, overconfidence, spin doctoring, philanthropic inclinations, principled commitments and humility. The duo delivers a penetrating look at the cold logic shaping the puzzling patterns that pervade our actions and communities Joseph Henrich, author of The WEIRDest People in the World