Dissident Voice 20-10-12 Original post Cached copy The Curse of Game Theory Dissident Voice - 2020-10-12 - Original post - Cached copy Game theory, the mathematical theory of games of strategy, was developed by John von Neumann in several successive stages in 1928 and 1940-41, according to his book Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour which he co-authored with Oskar Morgenstern.