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ONLY because this is /r/economics and I feel like most folks here have a decent foundation: I encourage anyone without a lot of knowledge but a genuine interest to pick up Ken Benmore's book.
This isn't a Mikio Kaku or Niel DeGrasse Tyson "pop" econ book, much more like a diet textbook.
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0199218463
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I wanted to share because I thought the article was pretty shallow & very VERY short. Don't tease me, towardsdatascience.com - I got through Econometrics, ya boi can handle it.
SO - if you're like me, check out the book. Fits in your back pocket & is extremely informative. (I was surprised when I saw all the negative reviews on Amazon, but when you read them, they're almost all bitching about how difficult a read this book is, which sort of supports my argument here.)
This! This! A hundred times this!
Game Theory will really open your eyes to patterns of social interactions and competition. For those who are unfamiliar, Game Theory tells you the best strategy to take given your opponent is rational, but you don't know what he'll do. The insights are amazing.
Also, I would highly recommend this book which I am halfway through - Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction.
Given your background, you could read Ken Binmore's Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction (2007). It's really short, but it assumes the reader is familiar with probability theory and a fair amount of mathematics. Binmore has another textbook Playing for Real (2007) which is goes much more in depth. It assumes the reader is familiar with linear algebra.
One of the central results of von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1928) is the minimax theorem. This was John von Neumann's favorite theorem from that book. John Nash generalized this in his PhD thesis in 1950. The minimax theorem establishes the existence of Nash equilibrium for zero-sum games with finite players and strategies. Nash's extended this and showed that any normal form game with finite players and strategies has an equilibrium. You might have seen the movie A Beautiful Mind which depicted John Nash working on this. If you are interested, you can read about Nash's proof in Luce and Raiffa's Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey (1957). The proof does assumes the reader is familiar with point set topology.
Outside of economics, game theory is also applied to evolutionary biology. One of the best books on evolutionary game theory is Martin Nowak's Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life (2006). You might also like John Maynard Smith's Evolution and the Theory of Games (1982). Maynard Smith assumes the reader is familiar with homogenous differential equations.
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I can recommend this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0199218463/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1523977648&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=game+theory+an+introduction&dpPl=1&dpID=51-1iVAIgiL&ref=plSrch
It’s (as the title says) a very entry level introduction to game theory. Explains stuff like the prisoners dilemma. It’s more of a coffee table book, you don’t really need to read it front to back, it’s one of those things where you can read a chapter at a time and jump around.
Ken Binmore - game theory.
Good if you just entering game theory.
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0199218463