January 22, 2001 Index for Eric Rasmusen, Readings in Games and Information [notes for copyediting: 1. The numbers in parentheses are the dates of the publications indexed. 2. Some authors have full first names, some initials, and some not even initials. I used the fullest information I had, but some mentions were without first names. ] accounting, 64 accounts receivable, 237 Acheson, Dean (1958), 96 Ackerman, Bruce (1977), 54 Adams, Scott, 36, 184, 196 adverse selection, 206 advertising, 219 Akerlof, George (1970), 124,201,335 amnesty, 129 Amoroso, Luigi, (1921) 346,358 Aquinas, Thomas, 395 Arrow, Kenneth (1962), 379, 384 (1963), 206,212 Ashenfelter, Orley (1989), 324,335 attention, 249 auditors, 64 Aumann, Robert (1959), 177, 181 and Lloyd Shapley (1976), 297, 307 Avery, C. (1993), 335 Axelrod, Robert (1980), 128 (1981), 148, 153 and William Hamilton (1981), 114 Ayres, Ian (1991), 229 and Jeremy Bulow (1997), 41 and Jeremy Bulow (1998), 39 Bagehot, Walter (1971), 214 Bagwell, Kyle (1987), 262, 273 (1990), 272, 273 and Michael Riordan (1986), 263,273 and Michael Riordan (1991), 261 Baldani, J. (1983), 382, 384 Banks,Jeffrey, J. Ledyard, and D. Porter (1989), 329, 335 bargaining, 241,241,295,309 Barro, Robert (1974), 113 and David Gordon (1983), 113 and Alan Stockman (1986), 129 Baumol, William and Stephen Goldfeld (1968), xiii Bernheim. Douglas and Michael Whinston(1986), 329,335 Bertrand, Joseph (1883), 346 bid-ask spread, 216 Bikhchandani, Sushil and John Mamer (1994), 334,335 Bing, R.H., 249 Binmore, Ken (1980), 296, 307 bonds, 23, 182 Boorman, S. and P. Levitt (1980), 114 Bower, Richard (1994), 419 Branco, F. (1995), 329,335 brokers, 241 Buchanan, James (1966), 210, 212 Bulow, Jeremy, John Geanakoplos and Paul Klemperer (1979), 382, 384 butterfly example, 139 Butters, Gerard (1977), 379, 384 Buzzell, Robert, Robert Nourse, John Matthews, and Theodore Levitt (1972), 261, 273 car buying, 241 cartels, 64,66,95 cartoons, 259 Caullery, M., (1952) 115 chainstore paradox, 148 Chan, Yuk-Shee and Hayne Leland (1982), 263, 273 characteristic function, 319 Chartpraser, Duangkamol (1993), 397 chess, 79 Cheung (1974), 52 Cho, In-Koo and David Kreps (1987), 263, 264, 273 clown cartoon, 259 clustering, 123 Collier, John (1951), 92 Colonel Blotto games, 61 commitment, 85 common knowledge, 149, 162 communication, 157,320 Conlisk, John, Eitan Gerstner, and Joel Sobel (1984), 263, 273 contractors, 182 Cooper, Russell and Thomas Ross (1984), 263, 273 and Thomas Ross (1985), 263, 273 coordination, 101 Cournot, Augustin (1838), 346,359 Cramton, Peter (1995), 322,335 Crawford, Vincent and Joel Sobel (1982), 156,160 Cremer, Jacques (1984), 262, 273 Cross, J. (1965), 296, 307 Curry, David and Peter Riesz (1988), 261, 274 Cybergold, 219 D'Amato, Anthony, 24 Darby, Michael and E. Karni (1973), 124 Darnell, Adrian (1988), 343 Dasgupta, Partha and Eric Maskin 365, 368 D'Aspremont, Claude, J. Gabszewicz and Jacques Thisse (1979), 343 Dau-Schmidt,Kenneth, Michael Alexeev,Robert Heidt, Eric Rasmusen, and Jeffrey Stake (1997), 395 Davis, John (1940), 275,419 Davis, Philip and Reuben Hersh and Elena Marchisotto (1981), 221,396 Davis, Scott (1989), 263, 273 Dawkins, Richard (1976), 127 Diamond, Peter and Michael Rothschild (1978), xiii Dilbert cartoons, 36, 184, 196 dishonesty, 208 dissertations, 138 Dixit, Avinash 229 (1979), 378, 384 and Carl Shapiro (1986), 154 Dresher, Melvin, 5 duels, 105 Dulles, John Foster, 96 Dwyer and Lindsay (1984), 52 dynamic consistency, 129 Eaton,B. and Robert Lipsey (1975), 365, 368 Edgeworth, Francis (1897), 343,346,359 (1922), 346,358 (1932), 296, 307 entry deterrence, 154,378,386 Epstein, Richard (1994), 419 Eves, Howard (1969), 77 evolution, 114 Far Side cartoons, 142, 225 Farrell, Joseph (1980), 263, 273 (1983), 169 (1986), 262, 273 (1987), 154 and Robert Gibbons (1986), 156, 160 and Garth Saloner (1985), 156, 160 Federal Communications Commission, 322 Fertig, Doron (1988), 263, 273 Fisher, R.A. (1930), 128 Flood, Merrill, 5 focal point, 155 Fogel, Robert, 199 Foucault, M. (1966), 52 Fowler, Henry (1965), 419 Friedman, Milton (1953), 139,200 Fudenberg, Drew and Jean Tirole (1983), 378,383, 384 and Jean Tirole (1984), 378 Gabor, Andre and Clive Granger (1965), 261, 273 Gandal, N. (1994), 325,335 Gang of Four, 145 Gans, Joshua and George Shepherd (1994), 199 garbage collection, 21 Gardner, Martin (1978), 225 Gelman, Judith and Steven Salop (1983), 383, 384 General Motors, 189 Gerstner, Eitan (1985), 261, 273 Gilbert, Richard and David Newbery(1982), 381, 384 Goffman, Erving, 89, 103 golden rule, 131 Gonik, Jacob (1978), 230 Goodfellas, 145 Gowers, Ernest (1954), 419 Graves, Robert and Alan Hodge (1944), 419 Gresham's Law, 202 Grevandes, U. (1979), 225 Grossman, Gene and Carl Shapiro (1984), 379, 384 group selection, 114 Gul, Faruk and E. Stacchetti (1995), 335 Halmos, Paul (1970), 419 Hamermesh, Daniel, 253 Hamilton, William (1971), 117,127 (1972), 127 (1978), 128 Hansmann, Henry (1983), 52 Harberger, Arnold (1954), 167, 169, 172 Hardin, Russell (1968), 5 Harman, Eleanor (1975), 419 Harsanyi, John (1967), xiii (1978), 300, 307 and R. Selten (1972), 301, 307 Hazlett, Thomas (1995), 322,336 Hein, Piet, 247 Hilbert, David, 77 Hirshleifer, Jack (1980), 52 Hirshleifer, David and Eric Rasmusen (1989), 395 Hitchcock, Alfred, 92 Hobbes, Thomas, 105 Holmstrom, Bengt (1979), 171, 172 home runs, 199 Horatius, 46 hostages, 94 Hotelling, Harold (1931), 343 (1929), 345,365 Hughes, Graham (1992), 189 IBM, 230 identification, 97 insurance, 206 intuitive criterion, 266 Jehiel, P. and B. Moldavanu (1995), 334, 336 and B. Moldovanu and E. Stacchetti(1995), 334,336 jokes, 39,71 Judd, Kenneth (1983), 382, 384 (1985), 264, 273 and Michael Riordan (1987), 263, 274 Kahn, Herman and Erwin Mann (1957), 84 Kain (1968), 52 Kaplan, Morton (1957), 87 Keynes, John (1936), 411 Kindleberger, Charles (1958), 208, 213 knockouts, 337 Kohlberg, Elon and Jean-Francois Mertens (1986), 264, 273 Kornhauser, Lewis (1980), 52 Krelle, W. (1975), 296, 307 Kreps, David and Paul Milgrom, John Roberts and Robert Wilson 147 and Jose Scheinkman (1982), 384 and Robert Wilson (1982), xiii,147,148,153,264 Krishna, V. and R. Rosenthal (1995), 334, 336 Krugman, Paul, 229 Kuhn, Harold (1950), 20 Kurz, Mordechai (1977), 118 (1978), 297, 307 Lachman, Judith (1984), 50 Lakatos, Imre (1976), 200,221,225 Lamperti, J. (1966), 179, 181 Landes, William, 229 Larson, H. (1948), 107 Larson, Gary, 142, 225 Lazear, Edward (1983), 419 (1986), 263, 273 Lefschetz, Solomon, 29 Leibenstein, Harvey (1976), 170, 172 Levy, M. (1955), 208,213 Lewis, W. (1955), 209, 213 Lindblom, C. and D. Cohen (1979), 53 liquidity, 215 Livy, 46 Luce, R. and Howard Raiffa (1957), 85,87,118, 181,296 and Albert Tucker (1959), xiii Luther, Martin (1956), 416 Macaulay, Thomas (1829), 395 Mafia, 21,161 Mankoff, Robert (1998), 259 maps, 50 marketmaker, 215 McAfee, R. Preston (1994), 324, 336 and John McMillan(1986), 330,333,336 and John McMillan(1988), 330,333, 336 and John McMillan(1996), 322 and Daniel Vincent (1993), 324, 336 McCloskey, Donald (1985), 419 McDonald, John and John Tukey (1949), 61 McMillan, John (1994), 324,336 (1995), 322,336 mediation, 100 Menezes, F. (1995), 334,336 Milgrom, Paul (1995), 322,336 and John Roberts (1982), 147, 153, 383, 384 and John Roberts (1986), 262, 264,274 and Nancy Stokey (1982), 145 and R. Weber (1982), 145,333,336 Mishna Perke Aboth, 394 mixed strategies, 62 monopoly, 167, 169 Monroe, Kent (1973), 261,274 Morgenstern, Oskar (1963), 407 Munter, Mary (1992), 395, 401,410, 412,419 Myerson, Roger (1981), 333, 336 (1991), 330, 336 Nasar, Sylvia (1998), 28 Nash, John (1950), 9,20,288,296 (1951), 10 (1953), 296, 307 and Lloyd Shapley (1950), 19,20 natural monopoly, 156 Nietzsche, Friedrich (1886), 397 Nobel prize, 322,333 North, Douglas and Miller (1973), 53 nuclear weapons, 83 OFA system, 233 Offner and Saks (1971), 52 O'Neill, Barry (1986), 315 OPEC, 64 Osborne, Martin and Carolyn Pitchik (1987), 343 parasites, 115 Pareto, M., 362 Pascal, Blaise (1656), 394 (1660), 390,398 Pataki, George, 24 patents, xi, 386 pay-to-play, 23 Peltzman, Sam (1991), 395 perfect equilibrium, 300 Pigou, A., 362 Pileggi, Nicholas (1985), 161, 189 (1995), 146 Pitchik, Carolyn and A. Schotter(1988), 324, 336 Plato, 395 plea bargains, 189 Plott, Charles (1994), 334,336 pocket socket, xi poker, 18 Polinsky, A. Mitchell (1983), 50 politics, 23, 41,340,356 pooling, 337,369 Pope, Alexander (1711), 393,397 Popper, Karl (1959), 53,55,200 Posner, Richard (1986), 419 Poundstone, William (1992), 3 Priest, George (1983), 52 prisoner's dilemma, 3,7,116,147 promises, 91 proofs, 146, 164,221,314 pure strategies, 62 Radner, R. (1967), 213 Ramey, Garey (1986), 263, 274 Rapoport, Anatol, 120 and A. Chammah (1965), 116 Rasmusen, Eric (2000), 389 (2001), 419,422 and Jeffrey Stake (1998), 395 Reinganum, Jennifer (1983), 378, 385 Remnik, David, 259 retaliation, 83 Rice, P. (1977), 296, 307 Riley, John and William Samuelson (1981), 333, 336 Riordan, Michael (1986), 263, 274 Roberts, Harry and Roman Weil (1970), 134 Roos, C. (1927), 346 (1928), 346 Rosenthal, R. and R. Wang (1995), 334, 336 Roth, Alvin (1979), 296, 307 Rothkopf, Michael (1980), 49 and A. Pekec and Ronald Harstad (1995), 329,336 Rubinstein, Ariel (1977), 297, 307 (1979), 173,297, 307 (1980), 297, 307 (1982), 295 Rylands v. Fletcher, 52 Saks Offner and Saks (1971), 52 Salant, S. (1995), 322,336 salesmen, 230 Schelling, Thomas (1960), 83 (1966), 77 (1978), 78 Schmalensee, Richard (1982), 378, 385 (1983), 382, 385 Schultz, Theodore (1964), 207, 213 Schultz, George and Robert Aliber (1966), 52 Schwalbe, Ulrich and Paul Walker, 77 Selten, R. (1965), 297,300, 307 (1975), 297,300, 308 seminars, 249,260,275,410 separating equilibrium, 265 sequential equilibrium, 148 Shaked, Avner (1982), 365 Shakespeare, William, 97 Shapiro, Carl (1983), 262, 274 Shapley, Lloyd, 3 Shepherd, George (1994), 199 Sherwin, C. (1956), 84 shipping, 66 Shubik, Martin (1954), 105 (1966), 321 (1971), 318 Simmons, G. (1992), 394 Smale, Steven (1980), 148,153 Smith, Adam (1776), 188 Sonnenschein, Hugo and Dorothy Hodges (1980), 419 Spence, A. Michael (1973), xiii,259 (1977), 378, 385 (1979), 378, 385 (1981), 378, 383, 385 Sprat, Thomas, 391 Sraffo, Pierro (1926), 345 stability, 120 Stahl, I. (1972), 296, 297, 308 (1977), 296, 297, 308 Stigler, George (1962), 207, 213 (1977), 71,420 Stokey, Nancy (1981), 263, 274 Straffin, Philip (1980), 5 Strunk, William and E. White(1959), 420 sufficient statistic theorem, 171 Sutherland, E. (1954), 98 symbiosis, 125 Szenberg, Michael (1999), 244 Szilard, L. (1955), 102 Taylor, M. (1976), 118 Tellis, Gerard and Birgir Wernerfelt(1987), 261, 274 Temin, Peter, 410 textbooks, 253 Thomson, William (1999), 399,420 threats 86,320 Tirole, Jean (1988), 263, 274 tit-for-tat, 114, 147 tournament, 119 Treynor, Jack, 214 Trivers, Robert (1971), 127 Truesdell, Clifford (1951), 396 Tucker, Albert, 5 (1950), 7 Tufte, Edward (1983), 420 Tullock, Gordon (1967), 167 (1994), 420 Tushnet (1980), 53 unions, 190,309 United Auto Workers, 189 Varian, Hal, 229 (1992), 229,253 (1999), 244 Vickrey, William (1964), 343 Von Neumann, John (1928), xiii and Oskar Morgenstern (1944), 10,20,85,288,318 Walster, G. William and T. Anne Cleary (1970), 136 websites, xi, xiii,xiv,3,39,219,239 Weiner, E. (1984), 420 Wellman, Francis (1936), 416 Whitehead, Alfred, 396, 412 Williams, George (1966), 127 Williamson, Oliver (1975), 124 Wilson, Robert (1969), 333, 336 (1977), 333,336 Wilson, E. O. (1975), 128 (1980), 128 Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1921), 411 Wolinsky, Asher (1983), 263, 274 writing, 139,251,259,276,389 X-inefficiency, 170 Zeisel, Hans (1957), 139 Zeithaml, Valarie (1988), 272, 274 Zermelo, Ernst (1913), 79