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Beautiful Game Theory : How Soccer Can Help Economics / Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 30 line illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691144023
  • 9781400850310
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.0151932 23
LOC classification:
  • HB74.P8 .P27 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FIRST HALF -- 1. Pelé Meets John von Neumann in the Penalty Area -- 2. Vernon Smith Meets Messi in the Laboratory -- 3. Lessons for Experimental Design -- 4. Mapping Minimax in the Brain -- 5. Psychological Pressure on the Field and Elsewhere -- HALFTIME -- 6. Scoring at Halftime -- SECOND HALF -- 7. Favoritism under Social Pressure -- 8. Making the Beautiful Game a Bit Less Beautiful 124 (with Luis Garicano) -- 9. Fear Pitch -- 10. From Argentina without Emotions -- 11. Discrimination: From the Makana Football Association to Europe -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful Game Theory is the first book that uses soccer to test economic theories and document novel human behavior.In this brilliant and entertaining book, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta illuminates economics through the world's most popular sport. He offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and microeconomics, covering topics such as mixed strategies, discrimination, incentives, and human preferences. He also looks at finance, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Soccer provides rich data sets and environments that shed light on universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways.Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports enthusiasts, Beautiful Game Theory is the first book to show what soccer can do for economics.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FIRST HALF -- 1. Pelé Meets John von Neumann in the Penalty Area -- 2. Vernon Smith Meets Messi in the Laboratory -- 3. Lessons for Experimental Design -- 4. Mapping Minimax in the Brain -- 5. Psychological Pressure on the Field and Elsewhere -- HALFTIME -- 6. Scoring at Halftime -- SECOND HALF -- 7. Favoritism under Social Pressure -- 8. Making the Beautiful Game a Bit Less Beautiful 124 (with Luis Garicano) -- 9. Fear Pitch -- 10. From Argentina without Emotions -- 11. Discrimination: From the Makana Football Association to Europe -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer. Beautiful Game Theory is the first book that uses soccer to test economic theories and document novel human behavior.In this brilliant and entertaining book, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta illuminates economics through the world's most popular sport. He offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and microeconomics, covering topics such as mixed strategies, discrimination, incentives, and human preferences. He also looks at finance, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Soccer provides rich data sets and environments that shed light on universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways.Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports enthusiasts, Beautiful Game Theory is the first book to show what soccer can do for economics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)