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		ced on Sept 19, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What books would you recommend reading? Why? The Evolution of Cooperation. It puts in formal terms some common sense about interactions among self-interested individuals.

nostrademons on Sept 19, 2007 [–]

Also pick up a game-theory textbook, which puts those formal terms in even more formal terms. ;-)

My course used Prajit K. Dutta's Strategies and Games: Theory and Practices (http://www.amazon.com/Strategies-Games-Practice-Prajit-Dutta...), which seemed fairly good, though I don't have much to compare it with.

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