Two-Person Cooperative Games

1953/01/01 by John C. Nash · 3,211 citations
Decision Sciences · Psychology · #Game Theory and Applications #Mathematical economics #Economics #Psychology

paper · doi:10.2307/1906951

published in Econometrica 21(1), 128 (Wiley)

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Abstract

The concept of a general two-person cooperative game is defined and a concept of a solution for such games is developed.

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