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We will be concerned mainly with the cognitive and ideological development of game theory. A glance at the development of its precursor, classical (one actor) decision theory, and even further back at the maturation of mathematical cognition will be instructive. We will, therefore, begin with a brief sketch of those analogous developments.
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Rapoport, A. (2001). Spin-Offs of Game Theory to Social Psychology, Theoretical Biology and Philosophy. In: Götschl, J. (eds) Evolution and Progress in Democracies. Theory and Decision Library, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1504-1_12
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