TY  - JOUR
TI  - Brown's Original Fictitious Play
AB  - What modern game theorists describe as fictitious play is not the learning process George W. Brown defined in his 1951 paper. Brown's original version differs in a subtle detail, namely the order of belief updating. In this note we revive Brown's original fictitious play process and demonstrate that this seemingly innocent detail allows for an extremely simple and intuitive proof of convergence in an interesting and large class of games: nondegenerate ordinal potential games.
DO  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2005.12.010
SP  - 572
EP  - 578
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2005.12.010
PY  - 2007-01-01
JO  - Journal of Economic Theory
AU  - Berger, Ulrich 
ER -