• Introduction and pedagogy
  • what size class do i teach?
  • textbooks i rely on
  • interactive pedagogy
  • use of colour

I teach a large (240+ students) course that introduces Game Theory to undergads with no training in economics. Their only pre-requisite is having completed first year university. The resources are mostly in the form of short, edited clips or snippets that combine audio and screen capture of slides/ overheads from the lectures plus a number of tutorial type question/answer problems or reviews of key conepts.

My course relies mostly on Dixit and Skeath's textbook Games of Strategy, although I also draw material from a rather broad and eclectic variety of books by authors like Rasmusen, Watson, Myerson, Osborne, Kreps, Milgrom and Roberts, Schelling, Varian, Roth, Eaton, Gigerenzer, Binmore......In 2007 I plan to use more of the hands on interactive experiments in Charlie Holt's new book Markets Games and Strategic Behaviourto augment and supplement the interactive learning in the course. Please email me if you have any other good books to reccomend.

• Dixit, Aand Skeath, S, Games of Strategy
  • the textbook I base my course around
• Holt, C Markets Games and Strategic Behaviour
  • fantastic source of active learning type experiments to run in class, as well as non-technical but deep and critical discussion of empirical knowledge of behaviour ina wide variety of games
• Kreps, D Microeconomics for Managers
  • superb book for MBA types generally, but I particularly like the chapters on uncertainty and information, eg chapters 15-43, but esp ch 19-23 on incentives, asymmetric information , reputations ; The appendices to Kreps and Baron Strategic Human resources is also a gold mine of practical and useful startegic theory and applications.
• Watson, J Strategy
  • now in a secon edtition. This is a terrific book, chock full of great examples from contracting and negotiation literatures.
• Hal Varain & Carl Shapiro Information Rules
  • One of THE best books on the modern information economy and srartegic issues (for both consumers and producers of information goods and services) . I try to weave the material on lock-in and hold-up into applications of simple sequential games in the early part of teh course.