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A fresh view of the strategies employed by individuals, groups, or social institutions in conflict situations has been stimulated by the mathematics of game theory. This has provided us with norms concerning reasonable decision policies to follow under various circumstances, but not with information on actual behavior. Something about this can be learned from experiments in which subjects resolve dilemmas involving opposition of interests. Such research is rapidly becoming voluminous, but an overview of it can still be crammed into one article. Such a review must deal with 2- and with n-person games, with zero-sum and nonzero-sum games, with games where payoffs are known and unknown, and with simulations which involve games.

Mathematical Methods and Theory in Games, Programming, and Economics By Samuel Karlin. Vol. 1: Matrix Games, Programming, and Mathematical Economics. Pp. x + 433. Vol. 2: The Theory of Infinite Games. Pp. xi + 386. (Addison-Wesley Series in Statistics.) (London: Pergamon Press; Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1959.) 75s. net. each volume.