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001 2009034837
003 DLC
005 20100904083327.0
008 090821s2010 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009034837
020 $a9780521562669 (hardback)
020 $a052156266X (hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn436358398
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dYDXCP$dERASA$dCDX$dDLC
050 00 $aHB144$b.L46 2010
082 00 $a519.3$222
100 1 $aLeonard, Robert,$d1962-
245 10 $aVon Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory :$bfrom chess to social science, 1900--1960 /$cRobert Leonard.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $ax, 390 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aHistorical perspectives on modern economics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a"The strangest states of mind": chess, psychology and Emanuel Lasker's Kampf -- "Deeply rooted, yet alien" : Hungarian Jews and Mathematicians -- From Budapest to Göttingen: an apprenticeship in modern mathematics -- "The futile search for the perfect formula": Von Neumann's minimax theorem -- Equilibrium on trial: the Austrian interwar critics -- Wrestling with complexity: Wirtschaftsprognose and beyond -- Ethics and the excluded middle: Karl Menger and social science in interwar Vienna -- From austroliberalism to Anschluss: Morgenstern and the Viennese Economists in the 1930's -- Mathematics and the social order: Von Neumann's return to game theory -- Ars combinatoria: creating the Theory of games -- Morgenstern's catharsis -- Von Neumann's war -- Social science and the "present danger": game theory and psychology at the RAND Corporation, 1946--1960.
650 0 $aGame theory$xHistory.
600 00 $aVon Neumann, John,$d1903-1957.
600 00 $aMorgenstern, Oskar,$d1902-1977.
830 0 $aHistorical perspectives on modern economics.