References and further reading

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Borel, E.

Borel, E. (1924), ‘Sur les jeux ou l’hasard se combine avec l’habilite des joueurs’, Comptes Rendus, Academie des Sciences, 178, 24-5.

Borel, E. (1927), ‘Sur le systeme de formes lineaires a determinant symetrique gauche et la theorie generale du jeu’, Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences, 184.2 (10 January), pp. 52-4, trans. L.J. Savage, ‘On systems of linear forms of skew symmetric determinants and the general theory of play’, Econometrica, 21 (January), pp. 116-17.

Borel, E. and J. Ville (1938), Traite du Calcul des Probabilites et de ses Applications, vol. 4, fasc. 2, Applications aux Jeux de Hasard, Paris: Gauthier-Villars.

Debreu, G. (1954), Theory of Value: an Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium, a Cowles Foundation Monograph, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.

Djakow, I.N., N.W. Petrowski and P.A. Rudik (1927), Psychologie des Schachspiels, Berlin and Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Giocoli, N. (2003), Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Kahn, H. (1962), Thinking about the Unthinkable, New York: Avon.

Kalisch, G., J.W. Milnor, J. Nash and E.D. Nering (1954), ‘Some experimental n-person games’, in R.M. Thrall, C.H. Coombs and R.L. Davis (eds), Decision Processes, New York: Wiley, pp. 301-27, originally RAND report, RAND RM-948, 25 August.

Kalmar, L. (1928-29), ‘Zur Theorie der abstrakten Spiele’ (‘On the theory of abstract games’), Acta Litterarum ac Scientiarum, Regiae Universitatis Hungaricae Francisco-Josephinae, s. Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Szeged, 4, 65-85.

Kirzner, I. (ed.) (1994), Classics in Austrian Economics: A Sampling in the History of a Tradition, London: W. Pickering.

Konig, D. (1927), ‘Uber eine Schlussweise aus dem Endlichen ins Unendliche’ (‘On a method of conclusion from the finite to the infinite’), Acta Litterarum ac Scientiarum, Regiae Universitatis Hungaricae Francisco- Josephinae, s. Scientiarum Mathematicarum, Szeged, 3, 121-30.

Lasker, E. (1907), Kampf, New York: Lasker’s Publishing Co.; reprinted 2001 with foreword by Lothar Schmidt, Potsdam: Verlag fur Berlin-Brandenburg.

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Mayer, H. (1932), ‘Der Erkenntniswert der funktionellen Preistheorien’, in H. Mayer (ed.), Die Wirtschaftstheorie der Gegenwart, vol. 2, Vienna, pp. 14 239b, English trans. and reprint 1994, ‘The cogni­tive value of functional theories of price, critical and positive investigations concerning the price problem’, in I. Kirzner (ed.), Classics in Austrian Economics: A Sampling in the History of a Tradition, London: W. Pickering, pp. 55-168.

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Morgenstern, O., Diary, Oskar Morgenstern Papers, Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Morgenstern, O. (1934a), Die Grenzen der Wirtschaftspolitik, Vienna: Julius Springer, English trans. V. Smith and revised (1937), The Limits of Economics, London: Hodge, pp. v, 151.

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