Ranked: The Strategies Of Game Theory

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: The Strategies Of Game Theory


This is a list of books that are about the economic concept of game theory, and books that utilize game theory.  Game theory takes into account how each participant would react to each other.  


What Is Game Theory?

  1. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
  2. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  3. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya

Applications of Game Theory
  1. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
  2. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
  3. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  4. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  5. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Sources Of Game Theory
  1. On War by Carl von Clausewitz
  2. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Limitations Of Game Theory