TY - BOOK ID - 2988313 TI - Russian contributions to game theory and equilibrium theory PY - 2006 VL - 39 SN - 1280610654 9786610610655 354032061X PB - Berlin : Springer-Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Game theory. KW - Equilibrium (Economics) KW - Games, Theory of KW - Theory of games KW - Mathematical models KW - Mathematics KW - DGE (Economics) KW - Disequilibrium (Economics) KW - DSGE (Economics) KW - Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (Economics) KW - Economic equilibrium KW - General equilibrium (Economics) KW - Partial equilibrium (Economics) KW - SDGE (Economic theory) KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Economic theory. KW - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2988313 AB - V.A. Vasil’ev and E.B. Yanovskaya 1 Game theory in the USSR before 1990 In this introductory chapter ?rst a short historical information about the development of game theory in the USSR before the 1990s is given. It should help to understand the choice of the papers in this volume. The development of game theory in the USSR began in the early sixties. N.N.Vorob’ev (1925- 1995) was the author of the ?rst papers about game theory in Russian; he was also the leader of a group of PhD students and young researchers at Leningrad who studied this new ?eldinmathematics. The early papers by Vorob’ev on enumerating equilibrium points in - matrix games ([74]), coalitional games where a player may belong to di erent coalitions ([77] and [78]) and equivalence of di erent types of strategies in games in extensive form ([75] and [76]), were published in Soviet journals having English translations, and so they became known in the West. Later on, game theory in the USSR exhibited signi?cant progress, which deserved world-wide attention. However, many game-theoretic papers were published in Soviet journals and edited volumes which have never been translated into English. In the 1960s, the theory of zero-sum games was popular in the USSR. ER -