ABSTRACT
This book is about the history of game theory up to and including von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944)—i.e. it discusses the history of an economic concentration for over 200 years before the concentration was named, and ends with its demarcation as a separate field. The continued study of the economics of Aristotle and, indeed, Adam Smith shows that there is no novelty in this: we can learn from our predecessors.
