Playing for Real: A Text on Game Theory Ken Binmore Game theory makes sense of a wide variety of human interaction, as Ken Binmore amply demonstrates in Playing for Real with a rich range of examples and applications. This new book is a replacement for Binmore's previous game theory textbook, Fun and Games. It is a lighthearted introduction to game theory suitable for advanced undergraduate students or beginning graduate students. It aims to answer three questions: What is game theory? How is game theory applied? Why is game theory right? It is the only book that tackles all three questions seriously without getting heavily mathematical. Topics covered include bargaining theory, imperfect competition, cooperative games, Bayesian decision theory, games of incomplete information, mechanism design, and auction theory. This book is suitable for students from a variety of disciplines, including economics, mathematics, and philosophy. Where necessary, standard topics in all three of these subjects are reviewed for the benefit of students from other disciplines. An important feature of the book is the large number of exercises, for which solutions are available. Ken Binmore is a mathematician-turned-economist who has devoted his life to the theory of games and its applications in economics, evolutionary biology, psychology, and moral philosophy. He is well known for his part in designing the telecom auction that raised $35 billion for the British taxpayer, but his major research contributions are to the theory of bargaining and its testing in the laboratory. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of 12 books and some 90 research papers. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at University College London.