List of games in game theory

Basically, the idea here is to figure out your best strategy for the 'game' (which really means any situation where you need to make a decision), given that the other "players" don't cooperate with you in any way (i.e. you assume they are going to act in their own self-interest).

The most basic successful strategy for the Prisoner's Dilemma is called "Tit-for-Tat", in which you always choose the "altruistic" option, unless the other player chose against you last time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

travisjeffery• 17 years ago

GAME THEORY A Nontechnical Introduction by Morton D. Davis is great.

loganfrederick2• 17 years ago

"Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life" by Len Fisher. Great introduction to the area of study.

Follow that up with the EconTalk podcast episode with Dr. Bruce Beuno de Mesquita: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/bruce_bueno_de_m...

TriinT2• 17 years ago

Prof. Ben Polak's game theory course at Yale:

http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/game-theory

Prof. Asu Ozdaglar's MIT course on game theory with engineering applications:

http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/sp08/6.254

Game theory for managers (MIT course for MBA's so it's light ;-)

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-040S...

TriinT2• 17 years ago

Some more links on game theory:

How Real People Think in Strategic Games: http://www.msri.org/people/members/sara/articles/expecon.pdf

Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory and Ten Intuitive Contradictions: http://people.virginia.edu/~cah2k/treasure.pdf

loganfrederick2• 17 years ago

Personally, I plan on pursuing a career where game theory would play an important role in my research or work (teaching or intelligence research).

In many ways it's the science of cause-and-effect (hence why the Tit-for-Tat game solution works so well). By applying the concept of how one event can determine another on a predictable basis, one can help explain and potentially solve many of the world's greatest problems.

List of games in game theory

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