History of Game Theory
History of Game Theory
Overviews
Cournot oligopoly
- Cournot's duopoly model
Presentation by Martin Osborne, in quantity terms.
Osborne offers a very good brief overview of the economics of the firm.
- Antoine Augustin Cournot, 1801-1877
History of Economic Thought Website, New School for Social Research.
- The Legacy of Augustin Cournot
University of North Carolina Working Paper by James W. Friedman, Nov. 16, 1999.
Friedman is a well-know game theorist.
See his paper "On the Strategic Importance of Prices versus Quantities" in RAND Journal of Economics, 19 (1988):607-622.
To find it, go to JSTOR and enter au:"James W. Friedman" in the search box.