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Game Theory Evolving, Second Edition Game Theory Evolving, Second Edition A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction Herbert Gintis Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Copyright c 2009 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gintis, Herbert. Game theory evolving : a problem-centered introduction to modeling strategic interaction / Herbert Gintis.-2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-14050-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)-ISBN 978-0-691-14051-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Game theory. 2. Economics, Mathematical. I . Title. HB144.G56 2008 330.01’5193-dc22 2 0 0 8 036523 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available The publisher would like to acknowledge the author of this volume for providing the camera-ready copy from which this book was printed This book was composed in Times and Mathtime by the author Printed on acid-free paper. press.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Marci and Dan Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a Commodius vicus of recircu- lation back James Joyce vi Contents Contents Preface xv 1 Probability Theory 1 1.1 Basic Set Theory and Mathematical Notation 1 1.2 Probability Spaces 2 1.3 De Morgan’s Laws