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=== Historically important texts ===
Aumann, R. J.; Shapley, L. S. (1974), Values of Non-Atomic Games, Princeton University Press
Cournot, A. Augustin (1838), "Recherches sur les principles mathematiques de la théorie des richesses", Libraire des Sciences Politiques et Sociales
Edgeworth, Francis Y. (1881), Mathematical Psychics, London: Kegan Paul
Farquharson, Robin (1969), Theory of Voting, Blackwell (Yale U.P. in the U.S.), ISBN 978-0-631-12460-3
Luce, R. Duncan; Raiffa, Howard (1957), Games and decisions: introduction and critical survey, New York: Wiley
reprinted edition: R. Duncan Luce; Howard Raiffa (1989), Games and decisions: introduction and critical survey, New York: Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0-486-65943-5
Maynard Smith, John (1982), Evolution and the theory of games, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-28884-2
Nash, John (1950), "Equilibrium points in n-person games", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 36 (1): 48–49, Bibcode:1950PNAS...36...48N, doi:10.1073/pnas.36.1.48, PMC 1063129, PMID 16588946
Shapley, L.S. (1953), A Value for n-person Games, In: Contributions to the Theory of Games volume II, H. W. Kuhn and A. W. Tucker (eds.)
Shapley, L. S. (October 1953). "Stochastic Games". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 39 (10): 1095–1100. Bibcode:1953PNAS...39.1095S. doi:10.1073/pnas.39.10.1095. PMC 1063912. PMID 16589380.
von Neumann, John (1928), "Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele", Mathematische Annalen, 100 (1): 295–320, Bibcode:1928MatAn.100..295V, doi:10.1007/bf01448847, S2CID 122961988 English translation: "On the Theory of Games of Strategy," in A. W. Tucker and R. D. Luce, ed. (1959), Contributions to the Theory of Games, v. 4, p. 42. Princeton University Press.
von Neumann, John; Morgenstern, Oskar (1944), "Theory of games and economic behavior", Nature, 157 (3981), Princeton University Press: 172, Bibcode:1946Natur.157..172R, doi:10.1038/157172a0, S2CID 29754824
Zermelo, Ernst (1913), "Über eine Anwendung der Mengenlehre auf die Theorie des Schachspiels", Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians, 2: 501–4

=== Other material ===
Allan Gibbard, "Manipulation of voting schemes: a general result", Econometrica, Vol. 41, No. 4 (1973), pp. 587–601.
McDonald, John (1950–1996), Strategy in Poker, Business & War, W. W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-31457-1 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help). A layman's introduction.
Papayoanou, Paul (2010), Game Theory for Business: A Primer in Strategic Gaming, Probabilistic, ISBN 978-0-9647938-7-3.
Satterthwaite, Mark Allen (April 1975). "Strategy-proofness and Arrow's conditions: Existence and correspondence theorems for voting procedures and social welfare functions" (PDF). Journal of Economic Theory. 10 (2): 187–217. doi:10.1016/0022-0531(75)90050-2.
Siegfried, Tom (2006), A Beautiful Math, Joseph Henry Press, ISBN 978-0-309-10192-9
Skyrms, Brian (1990), The Dynamics of Rational Deliberation, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-21885-7
Thrall, Robert M.; Lucas, William F. (1963), "
  
    
      
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Dolev, Shlomi; Panagopoulou, Panagiota N.; Rabie, Mikaël; Schiller, Elad M.; Spirakis, Paul G. (2011). "Rationality authority for provable rational behavior". Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS symposium on Principles of distributed computing. pp. 289–290. doi:10.1145/1993806.1993858. ISBN 978-1-4503-0719-2.
Chastain, Erick; Livnat, Adi; Papadimitriou, Christos; Vazirani, Umesh (June 2014), "Algorithms, games, and evolution", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (29): 10620–10623, Bibcode:2014PNAS..11110620C, doi:10.1073/pnas.1406556111, PMC 4115542, PMID 24979793

== External links ==

James Miller (2015): Introductory Game Theory Videos.
"Games, theory of", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]
Paul Walker: History of Game Theory Page.
David Levine: Game Theory. Papers, Lecture Notes and much more stuff.
Alvin Roth:"Game Theory and Experimental Economics page". Archived from the original on 15 August 2000. Retrieved 13 September 2003.  — Comprehensive list of links to game theory information on the Web
Adam Kalai: Game Theory and Computer Science — Lecture notes on Game Theory and Computer Science
Mike Shor: GameTheory.net — Lecture notes, interactive illustrations and other information.
Jim Ratliff's Graduate Course in Game Theory Archived 29 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine (lecture notes).
Don Ross: Review Of Game Theory in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Bruno Verbeek and Christopher Morris: Game Theory and Ethics
Elmer G. Wiens: Game Theory — Introduction, worked examples, play online two-person zero-sum games.
Marek M. Kaminski: Game Theory and Politics Archived 20 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine — Syllabuses and lecture notes for game theory and political science.
Websites on game theory and social interactions
Kesten Green's Conflict Forecasting at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 April 2011) — See Papers for evidence on the accuracy of forecasts from game theory and other methods Archived 15 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine.
McKelvey, Richard D., McLennan, Andrew M., and Turocy, Theodore L. (2007) Gambit: Software Tools for Game Theory.
Benjamin Polak: Open Course on Game Theory at Yale Archived 3 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine videos of the course
Benjamin Moritz, Bernhard Könsgen, Danny Bures, Ronni Wiersch, (2007) Spieltheorie-Software.de: An application for Game Theory implemented in JAVA.
Antonin Kucera: Stochastic Two-Player Games.
Yu-Chi Ho: What is Mathematical Game Theory; What is Mathematical Game Theory (#2); What is Mathematical Game Theory (#3); What is Mathematical Game Theory (#4)-Many person game theory; What is Mathematical Game Theory ?( #5) – Finale, summing up, and my own view