Keyword: dominant strategy

Games Are Serious and Ubiquitous (7/7/2006)

In game-theoretic situations, organization and coordination are needed to ensure the compatibility of individual and group interests.

Keywords: binary choice, coordination, dominant strategy, free market, game, game theory, government intervention, group interest, organization, PD, prisoner’s dilemma, self-interest, strategic behavior

Games people play (transcript) (3/27/2007)

Narrated lecture on multi-party games involving binary choices.

Keywords: binary choice, congestion, coordination, critical mass, dominant strategy, externality, game theory, gender, invisible hand, nash equilibrium, payoff matrix, prisoner's dilemma, Schelling, stable solution

Who Sets the Curve? (11/22/2003)

Even though extra study time will improve only one's absolute position but not one's relative position in the grading curve, competitive pressure will ensure that any agreement to not out-study each other will be broken.

Keywords: curve, dominant strategy, grade curving, PD, prisoner's dilemma