Jörgen Weibull

This book provides a self-contained, concise, introduction to evolutionary game theory, focusing on conceptual and logical connections between evolutionary and noncooperative game theory. The text assumes a mathematical and game-theoretic background at about the master level in economics, biology or mathematics. The book considers single-population evolutionary models of pairwise interactions represented as a symmetric two-player games, discussas a few static concepts centered around the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy; a particular dynamic model of evolutionary selection in continuous time, the so-called replicator dynamics; and models of other selection dynamics, including dynamic models of social evolution. The book develops both static and dynamic models of multipopulation interactions represented as n-player games. An appendix provides a concise introduction to the theory of ordinary differential equations. Weibull is professor emeritus in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics . Bibliography; index.