Prisoner's dilemma

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Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1 - Dilemmas
The Nuclear Dilemma
John von Neumann
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Chapter 2 - John von Neumann
The Child Prodigy
Kun’s Hungary
Early Career
The Institute
Klara
Personality
The Sturm und Drang Period
The Best Brain in the World
Chapter 3 - Game Theory
Kriegspiel
Who Was First?
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Cake Division
Rational Players
Games as Trees
Games as Tables
Zero-Sum Games
Minimax and Cake
Mixed Strategies
Curve Balls and Deadly Genes
The Minimax Theorem
N-Person Games
Chapter 4 - The Bomb
Von Neumann at Los Alamos
Game Theory in Wartime
Bertrand Russell
World Government
Operation Crossroads
The Computer
Preventive War
Chapter 5 - The RAND Corporation
History
Thinking About the Unthinkable
Surfing, Semantics, Finnish Phonology
Von Neumann at RAND
John Nash
The Monday-Morning Quarterback
Chapter 6 - Prisoner’s Dilemma
The Buick Sale
Honor Among Thieves
The Flood-Dresher Experiment
Tucker’s Anecdote
Common Sense
Prisoner’s Dilemmas in Literature
Free Rider
Nuclear Rivalry
Chapter 7 - 1950
The Soviet Bomb
The Man from Mars
Urey’s Speech
The Fuchs Affair
The Korean War
The Nature of Technical Surprise
Aggressors for Peace
Francis Matthews
Aftermath
Public Reaction
Was It a Trial Balloon?
The MacArthur Speech
Orvil Anderson
Press Reaction
How Many Bombs?
Coda
Chapter 8 - Game Theory and Its Discontents
Criticism of Game Theory
Utility and Machiavelli
Are People Rational?
The Ohio State Studies
Chapter 9 - Von Neumann’s Last Years
The H-Bomb
A Very Fine Tiger
The Commissioner
The Moment of Hope
Illness
Death
Chapter 10 - Chicken and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Chicken
Volunteer’s Dilemma
Volunteer’s Dilemma Experiments
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Madman Theory
Chapter 11 - More on Social Dilemmas
Deadlock
Stag Hunt
Asymmetric Games
Justifying Cooperation
Howard’s Meta-Game
Backward Induction Paradox
Chapter 12 - Survival of the Fittest
Stable Strategies
Is Defection in the Genes?
Robert Axelrod
Tit for Tat
The Trouble With Tit for Tat
Artificial Selection
The Fish in the Mirror
Cooperation and Civilization
Tit for Tat in the Real World
Chapter 13 - The Dollar Auction
Escalation
Shubik’s Dollar Auction
Dollar Auctions in Real Life
Strategies
Rational Bidding
Where Game Theory Fails
The Largest-Number Game
Feather in a Vacuum
Bibliography
About the Author
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