TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palacios-Huerta,Ignacio
TI  - Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics 
SN  - 9780691144023
AV  - HB74.P8 .P27 2017
U1  - 330.0151932 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Economics
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Game theory
KW  - Soccer
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Argentina
KW  - English league soccer
KW  - John F. Nash Jr
KW  - behavioral bias
KW  - behavioral changes
KW  - brain
KW  - competition
KW  - competitive games
KW  - corruption
KW  - criminal damage
KW  - discrimination
KW  - economics
KW  - efficient-markets hypothesis
KW  - emotional response
KW  - equilibrium concept
KW  - experimental design
KW  - experimental economics
KW  - game theory
KW  - halftime
KW  - hooliganism
KW  - human behavior
KW  - human preference
KW  - incentives
KW  - laboratory experiment
KW  - microeconomics
KW  - minimax theorem
KW  - mixed strategies
KW  - neuroeconomics
KW  - neurophysiology
KW  - penalty kick game
KW  - penalty kick
KW  - penalty kicks
KW  - penalty shoot-out
KW  - penalty shoot-outs
KW  - prejudice
KW  - probability mixtures
KW  - professional athletes
KW  - professional soccer players
KW  - psychological bias
KW  - psychological pressure
KW  - referee bias
KW  - rewards
KW  - scoring
KW  - soccer fans
KW  - soccer games
KW  - soccer players
KW  - soccer
KW  - social forces
KW  - social pressure
KW  - sport
KW  - sports fans
KW  - sports
KW  - stock market
KW  - stock prices
KW  - taste-based discrimination
KW  - three-point rule
KW  - vandalism
KW  - violence
KW  - zero-sum experimental games
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850310?locatt=mode:legacy
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