Game Theory short
What a "Game" means in Game Theory. Rivalry is direct. In "Zero-Sum" games you win just what the other guy loses. Economic market games are often non-zero sum. Noncooperative often. Oligopolistic.
Who needs to study Game Theory? We will do two-person games in this course.
Nash Equilibrium: A set of strategies such that each player believes accurately that he is doing the best he can given the strategy of the other player.
Nash as a young man Nash as a Nobel Prize Winner The book and the Oscar-winning movie.
Barkley A B Allied I II
Applications of Game Theory outside of economics: Prisoner's Dilemma MAD our historical Cold War policy on nuclear attack missiles and our defensive system.
Does Cheating Pay?
Before Most-favored Customer Clause
After Most-Favored Customer Clause
Walmart Case: Preemptive strategies.