Abstract
John Nachbar of Washington University in St. Louis reviews “Evolutionary Games in Natural, Social, and Virtual Worlds,” by Daniel Friedman and Barry Sinervo. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Primary or supplementary textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in biology, economics, and engineering provides an introduction to evolutionary game theory (EGT) and shows how to take EGT models to the data, as well as presenting applications and explanations of EGT models from many fields. Includes end-of-chapter exercises. Discusses population dynamics; simple frequency dependence; dynamics in n-dimensional games; equilibrium; social games; cellular automaton games; rock–paper–scissors (RPS) everywhere—general RPS interactions in mating systems and Hadamard products; learning in games; contingent life cycle strategies; the blessing and the curse of the multiplicative updates (Manfred K. Warmuth); traffic games (John Musacchio); international trade and the environment (Matthew McGinty); the evolution of cooperation; and speciation. Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sinervo is Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.”
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