ABSTRACT
This book’s first edition began with the observation that game theory was everywhere; that after thrilling a whole generation of post-1970 economists, it was spreading like a bushfire through the social sciences. In addition, game theorists had begun to advance some pretty ambitious claims regarding the potential of the theory to become for the social sciences what mathematics is to the natural sciences: a unifying force able to bring together politics, economics, sociology, anthropology and so on under one roof and turn them into sub-disciplines of some broader ‘science of society’.
