Arrived in the post, and only slightly chewed on one corner by the dog on dropping through the letter box, is [amazon_link id=”0691144028″ target=”_blank” ]Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics[/amazon_link] by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta. Football is so much not my thing that a book using game theory to explain soccer isn’t very enticing, and using soccer to explain game theory would mystify me. The book aims to do both. Not one for me but I *love* the title.
Slightly chewed
I’ll take it I you don’t want it! Chris Dillow tweeted approvingly of it.
I’ll send it to the first person to request it, as long as they’re willing to write a short review for this blog!
Probably fairer for me to leave that to an impecunious student.