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Welcome to Game Theory
  • Level Foundation
  • المدة 21 ساعات hours
  • الطبع بواسطة The University of Tokyo
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عن

This course provides a brief introduction to game theory. Our main goal is to understand the basic ideas behind the key concepts in game theory, such as equilibrium, rationality, and cooperation. The course uses very little mathematics, and it is ideal for those who are looking for a conceptual introduction to game theory. Business competition, political campaigns, the struggle for existence by animals and plants, and so on, can all be regarded as a kind of “game,” in which individuals try to do their best against others. Game theory provides a general framework to describe and analyze how individuals behave in such “strategic” situations. This course focuses on the key concepts in game theory, and attempts to outline the informal basic ideas that are often hidden behind mathematical definitions. Game theory has been applied to a number of disciplines, including economics, political science, psychology, sociology, biology, and computer science. Therefore, a warm welcome is extended to audiences from all fields who are interested in what game theory is all about.

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Introduction

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  • Course Preview

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  • Course Description
  • Syllabus

Lesson 1.1

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  • Practice Quiz 1.1

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  • 1-1 What is Game Theory?
  • 1-2 Modelling Social Problems as a "Game"
  • 1-3 In Search for the Governing Principle
  • 1-4 Concerns About a Mathematical Theory of Human Behavior

Lesson 1.2

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  • Practice Quiz 1.2

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  • 1-5 Let's Play a Game
  • Card Game Tutorial (No Audio)
  • 1-6 John Nash Discovered the Governing Principle
  • 1-7 Nash Equilibrium

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  • Card Game Challenge Instruction

Lesson 1.3

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  • Practice Quiz 1.3

3 Videos

  • 1-8 Traffic Game in Reality
  • 1-9 Location Game
  • 1-10 Policies of Two Parties

1 Readings

  • (Supplementary Reading Material) Convergence to Nash Equilibrium in the Traffic Game

Graded Quiz

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  • Graded Quiz 1

Honors Problems

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  • Module 1 Optional Challenge Problems

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  • About Optional Challenge Problems
  • Supplemental explanation for Question 1, 2 and 3

Lesson 2.1

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  • Practice Quiz 2.1

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  • 2-1 Nash Equilibrium and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
  • 2-2 Coordination Game and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • 2-3 Market Competition

Lesson 2.2

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  • Practice Quiz 2.2

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  • 2-4 Why Do People Come to Play Nash Equilibrium? Part I
  • 2-5 Why Do People Come to Play Nash Equilibrium? Part II
  • 2-6 Why Do People Come to Play Nash Equilibrium? Part III
  • 2-7 Stylized Facts and Nash Equilibrium

Lesson 2.3

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  • Practice Quiz 2.3

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  • 2-8 Make Yourself Unpredictable: Mixed Strategy Equilibrium
  • 2-9 Sports Games and Game Theory
  • 2-10 Nash Equilibrium Exists in All Games

Graded Quiz

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  • Graded Quiz 2

Honors Problems

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  • Module 2 Optional Challenge Problems

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  • About Optional Challenge Problems

Lesson 3.1

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  • Practice Quiz 3.1

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  • 3-1 Digression: The Card Game Revisited
  • 3-2 Digression: How You Played the Card Game and Addressing the Concerns about Game Theory
  • 3-3 “Payoffs” in a Game: What Exactly Are Those Numbers?

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  • Aggregated Result of the Card Game Challenge

Lesson 3.2

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  • Practice Quiz 3.2

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  • 3-4 What Does it Mean That a Player is Rational?
  • 3-5 Domination: Strategies That Are “Obviously Good or Bad”
  • 3-6 Common Knowledge of Rationality

Lesson 3.3

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  • Practice Quiz 3.3

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  • 3-7 Low Rationality: What Happens if Players Are Not Very Smart?
  • 3-8 Game Theory Under Zero-Intelligence: Biological Evolution
  • 3-9 Fig Wasps Play a Nash Equilibrium

Graded Quiz

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Honors Problems

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  • Module 3 Optional Challenge Problems

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  • About Optional Challenge Problems
  • Supplemental explanation for Question 2, 3 and 4

Lesson 4.1

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  • Practice Quiz 4.1

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  • 4-1 Group Rationality and The Rationality of Individuals
  • 4-2 Why is Group Rationality Different From Rationality of Individuals?

Lesson 4.2

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  • Practice Quiz 4.2

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  • 4-3 Group Rationality vs. Rationality of Individuals in Biological Evolution
  • 4-4 Group Rationality vs. Rationality of Individuals in Social Thought
  • 4-5 How to Enforce Socially Desirable Outcomes

Lesson 4.3

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  • Practice Quiz 4.3

5 Videos

  • 4-6 Cooperation of gas Stations in Long-Term Relationship Part I: Need For Cooperation
  • 4-7 Cooperation of Gas Stations in Long-Term Relationship Part II: Mechanism of Cooperation
  • 4-8 Reputation and Brand Name
  • 4-9 Cooperation in Loosely Knit Organization
  • 4-10 Summary of the Course

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  • (Supplementary Reading Material) Why People Discount Future Payoff ?

Graded Quiz

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  • Graded Quiz 4

Additional Contents

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  • Final Message from the Instructor

Honors Problems

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  • Module 4 Optional Challenge Problems

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  • About Optional Challenge Problems

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"Welcome to Game Theory" is a foundational course in Business & Management, presented by Coursera and designed for those seeking a conceptual introduction to game theory without heavy mathematics. Led by an expert instructor, this 1260-minute course covers key concepts like equilibrium, rationality, and cooperation, applicable across economics, political science, psychology, sociology, biology, and computer science. Ideal for learners from various fields, it offers a starter subscription option.

Michihiro Kandori
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Michihiro Kandori