Prisoner's dilemma
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Prisoner's dilemma
(Oxford paperbacks)
Oxford University Press, 1993, c1992
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Prisoner's dilemma : John von Neumann, game theory, and the puzzle of the bomb
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Originally published: Doubleday, New York, 1992
Bibliography: p. [279]-283
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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Game theory - a branch of mathematics concerned with conflict and deception - is one of the core concepts of our time. "Prisoner's Dilemma" traces the life of John von Neumann, who constructed the theory, invented the digital computer, and played a key role in the development of the atom bomb. William Poundstone, the author of "The Recursive Universe and Labyrinths of Reason", weaves into the story a history of the pivotal phases of the Cold War and an investigation of game theory's far-reaching influence on public policy today.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Dilemmas: the nuclear dilemma
- John von Neumann
- prisoner's dilemma. Part 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. Part 3 Game theory: Kriegspiel
- who was first?
- theory of games and economic behaviour
- 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. Part 4 The bomb: Von Neumann at Los Alamos
- game theory in wartime
- Bertrand Russell
- world government
- operation crossroads
- the computer
- preventive war. Part 5 The Rand Corporation: history
- thinking abouth the unthinkable
- surfing, semantics, Finnish phonology
- Von Neumann at Rand
- John Nash
- the Monday-morning quarterback. Part 6 Prisoner's dilemma: the Buick sale
- honour among thieves
- the Flood-Dresher experiment
- Tucker's anecdote
- common sense
- prisoner's dilemmas in literature
- free rider
- nuclear rivalry. Part 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. Part 8 Game theory and its discontents: criticism of game theory
- utility and Machiavelli
- are people rational?
- the Ohio State studies. Part 9 Von Neumann's last years: the H-bomb
- a very fine tiger
- the commissioner
- the moment of hope
- illness
- death. Part 10 Chicken and the Cuban missile crisis: chicken
- volunteer's dilemma
- volunteer's dilemma experiments
- the Cuban missile crisis
- the madman theory. Part 11 More on social dilemmas: deadlock
- stag hunt
- asymmetric games
- justifying co-operation
- Howard's meta-game
- backward induction paradox. Part 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
- co-operation and civilization
- TIT FOR TAT in the real world. Part 13 The dollar auction: escalation
- Shubik's dollar auction
- dollar auctions in real life
- strategies
- rational bidding
- where game theory falls
- the largest-number game
- feather in a vacuum.
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