Ariel Rubinstein
Economist and game theorist, co-author of osborne-rubinstein-course-in-game-theory. Holds a joint appointment across the Department of Economics at tel-aviv-university and Princeton University — the book lists both addresses.
His own research on bounded rationality is visible in the book’s shape: Chapters 5 (knowledge), 8 (repeated games) and 9 (complexity considerations) draw on a draft of a book he was writing on bounded-rationality models, and Chapter 9’s device — treating a strategy as a finite machine and charging the player for its complexity — is that programme in miniature.
The alternating-offers bargaining model of Chapter 7 is his; it is usually called the Rubinstein bargaining model, and Chapter 15 connects its subgame perfect equilibrium back to the axiomatic Nash bargaining solution.
In the preface’s signed disagreement over generic pronouns, Rubinstein is the one arguing that continuous reminders of the issue divert the reader from the subject.
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- co-author of osborne-rubinstein-course-in-game-theory with martin-j-osborne; affiliation tel-aviv-university and Princeton
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