Prim–Read theory, or Prim–Read defense, was an important development in game theory that led to radical changes in the United States' views on the value...
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Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively...
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Either way, philosopher John Rawls concludes differently in his 1971 A Theory of Justice, stating that a just society must tolerate the intolerant, for...
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Daniel Kahneman (redirect from Central capacity theory)
challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. Kahneman became known as the "grandfather of behavioral economics." With...
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Deterrence theory refers to the scholarship and practice of how threats of using force by one party can convince another party to refrain from initiating...
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Combinatorial game theory is a branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that typically studies sequential games with perfect information...
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John von Neumann (section Set theory)
that von Neumann read a book by the mathematical economist Léon Walras. Von Neumann noticed that Walras's General Equilibrium Theory and Walras's law...
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game theory is the study of strategic decision making by small interacting agents in very large populations. It lies at the intersection of game theory with...
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Look up Appendix:Glossary of game theory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Game theory is the branch of mathematics in which games are studied: that...
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Nash equilibrium (redirect from Nash theorem (in game theory))
In game theory, a Nash equilibrium is a situation where no player could gain by changing their own strategy (holding all other players' strategies fixed)...
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In game theory, a focal point (or Schelling point) is a solution that people tend to choose by default in the absence of communication in order to avoid...
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Minimax (redirect from Maximin (decision theory))
a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, combinatorial game theory, statistics, and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss...
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In game theory, a cooperative or coalitional game is a game with groups of players who form binding "coalitions" with external enforcement of cooperative...
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252. ISBN 978-0-486-40917-7. Mendelson, Elliott (2016). Introducing Game Theory and its Applications. CRC Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-4822-8587-1. "Wild Tic-Tac-Toe"...
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In game theory, a move, action, or play is any one of the options which a player can choose in a setting where the optimal outcome depends not only on...
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Evolutionary game theory (EGT) is the application of game theory to evolving populations in biology. It defines a framework of contests, strategies, and...
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In cooperative game theory, the core is the set of feasible allocations or imputations where no coalition of agents can benefit by breaking away from the...
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Chopsticks (hand game) (category Combinatorial game theory)
Prim–Read theory Rational ignorance Rational irrationality Sperner's lemma Zermelo's theorem Subfields Algorithmic game theory Behavioral game theory...
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Alpha–beta pruning (category Combinatorial game theory)
Prim–Read theory Rational ignorance Rational irrationality Sperner's lemma Zermelo's theorem Subfields Algorithmic game theory Behavioral game theory...
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Tragedy of the commons (redirect from Commons theory)
game theory, wherein two parties may each act in an individually beneficial fashion to the detriment of both Race to the bottom Resource curse – Theory that...
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Stable matching problem (category Game theory game classes)
Economic Sciences was awarded to Lloyd S. Shapley and Alvin E. Roth "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." An important and...
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Chicken (game) (redirect from Hawk and dove (game theory))
game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory. The principle of the game is that while the ideal outcome is for one player...
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and probability judgment; later they worked together to develop prospect theory, which aims to explain irrational human economic choices and is considered...
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Economic Theory. 10 (3): 497–507. doi:10.1007/s001990050169. ISSN 0938-2259. JSTOR 25055054. S2CID 153431949. Edgeworth, Francis (1889) “The pure theory of...
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Tit for tat (category Strategy (game theory))
first recorded in 1558. It is also a highly effective strategy in game theory. An agent using this strategy will first cooperate, then subsequently replicate...
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Ultimatum game (section Evolutionary game theory)
(preference for fairness). Even in anonymous one-shot settings, the economic-theory suggested outcome of minimum money transfer and acceptance is rejected by...
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Dynamic inconsistency (category Game theory)
game theory, whereas "time inconsistency" is more closely affiliated with behavioral economics.[vague][citation needed] In the context of game theory, dynamic...
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Public goods game (section Game theory)
can be excluded from using it—like street lighting). Part of the economic theory of public goods is that they would be under-provided (at a rate lower than...
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In game theory, Zermelo's theorem is a theorem about finite two-person games of perfect information in which the players move alternately and in which...
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No-win situation (category Game theory)
no-win outcomes and find more satisfactory results.[citation needed] In game theory, a "no-win" situation is a circumstance in which no player benefits from...
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