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Nash equilibrium was a good article, but it was removed from the list as it no longer met the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.
Review: July 14, 2007.

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Nash equilibrium available online

The seminal journal paper in which Nash introduces what is now called the Nash equilibrium is "Non-Cooperative Games", John Nash, The Annals of Mathematics 54(2):286-295, 1951. It is available online to for a fee at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-486X%28195109%292%3A54%3A2%3C286%3ANG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G (many universities subscribe to JSTOR, so this link should work for at least some people beside me)

I'm not posting that directly to the page since I'm not sure whether it's OK to post links to for-pay resources. If it is OK, then please copy this to the article page.

--JP, Nov 10 2005

Well, I just did that yesterday, before reading this note. I will remove what I did right away. The article is available for a fee, but many universities and colleges provide free access to this and other for fee-services for their students.

--Zsolt, June 7, 2006

On the other hand, referencing the article itself, without a link to the for-fee online article is probably ok. So I just took out the link to that on-line version. This way people can still find it if they want to.

--Zsolt, June 7, 2006

Removed setence

I reverted an edit by anon, which added this setence to one section:

"choosing the best strategy given the strategies that others have chosen"

The sentence was out of context and imcomplete. If the anon would like to add it in context I'm sure it would be helpful. --Kzollman 17:59, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Coordination game

As it turns out the entry Coordination game redirects here. Given the wide discussion of coordination games, I think it diserves its own entry. Would folks mind if I seeded the entry with the material here, and removed the redirect? thanks! -Kzollman 23:43, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Presently, nothing links to Coordination game other than daughters of Nash Equilibrium, and both of these actually give its pay-off matrix (Mixed strategy, Pure strategy). Therefore, there can't be a problem expanding that article from a redirect.

Cheers, Wragge 00:56, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

Done! best --Kzollman 00:48, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Fixed points

In my game theory class and text books we proved the existence of the Nash equilibrium using Kakutani fixed point theorem, a generalization of Brouwer fixed point theorem. Does anyone smarter than me know if Brower's is strong enough to prove the existence (as stated in the article)? --Kzollman 00:48, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I fixed the proof. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 06:03, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Experimental Economics

Could or should we add a section on experimental results? For example there's some info (without citation) about coordination games on the experimental economics page. Can people who have more range and depth contribute more examples, etc?

PS I also feel like the sentence in the introduction about experimental economics needs citations and editing.

@Vgurvich I just wanted to say, it's fine for you to make edits referencing your own work. However, you do have to:

Make a note in the edit summary that you have a conflict of interest (are citing your own research), and
You have to show your research on this topic is important, by showing how it's been cited by other researchers (and ideally, appeared in textbooks discussing Nash equilibria, to establish this result is important enough to deserve being such a big chunk of the article).

I'll also suggest putting the proof in a spoilered box to avoid taking up too much space. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 19:20, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]