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Game Sutra : rescuing game theory from the game theorists /

A book that makes readers comfortable with the language of game theory by bringing its practical application to the real world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prasad, Rohit (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Sage Publications, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Game Theory Deconstructed; 2 Common Knowledge and Counter-Strikes; 3 How Rational Are You?; 4 Does Donald Trump Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?; 5 Is Game Theory a Value-Neutral Science?; 6 The Centre of Gravity: The Nash Equilibrium; 7 Returning to Rationality: The Prisoners' Dilemma; 8 The Vulnerability of the Chinese Corridor; 9 Searching for an Equilibrium in the India-China Game; 10 War and Peace in the Heartlands of Maoism; 11 Is It Silly Season in Indian Telecom?; 12 Designing Legal Liability Rules to Fix Delhi's Winter Woes
  • 13 Games Businesses Play14 The Airtel-Jio Battle and the Limitations of Game Theory; 15 Battles of the Bitcoin; 16 The Collective Action Problem of Assurance; 17 The Hapless Fate of an Alleged Spy; 18 Telecom on the Rocks with a Twist of IUC; 19 The NDA, the UPA and Two Types of Chicken; 20 The Tragedy of the Planet's Environmental Wealth; 21 The Waters of Our Discontent; 22 Sequential Games and Rollback Equilibrium; 23 Reliance Jio's Second-Mover Advantage; 24 The 2016 US Elections: The Game of Ideologies; 25 The Absolutism of Demonetization
  • 26 Risks Posed by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code27 Every Democracy Needs a Little Disloyalty; 28 The Fine Art of Making Threats; 29 Will Threats Work against Pakistan?; 30 The RBI and the Flip Flop Finance Ministry; 31 Law and Orderin a Time of Lynch Mobs; 32 How to Play Hardball and Get Away with It; 33 North Korea is Not Really Cuba; 34 Exaggeration in Brinkmanship is a Double-Edged Sword; 35 Pseudo-Brinkmanship and the Sacrament of Marriage; 36 The Twist in the Tale of Bihar's Political Chameleon; 37 Hell Hath No Fury Like a Party Scorned; 38 Navigating the Fog of War
  • 39 The Inscrutable Silence of a Star Yogi40 The Pure Politics of the Mercurial Mayawati; 41 Rahul Gandhi and the Beer-'Dhokla' Game; 42 Are Our Kids Really Smarter than We Were?; 43 Giving Up Control to Achieve Unpredictability; 44 When Being Paranoid is Ok; 45 The Perfect Unpredictability of Roger Federer; 46 How to Buy Cricketers and Coal Blocks; 47 What the IPL can Learn from Telecom; 48 The Giddy Tournaments of Capitalism; 49 Re-Designing the Insolvency Auction to Optimize Value; 50 The Auction That Runsthe Internet; 51 AD Auctions: A Market for Horses
  • 52 The Gale-Shapley Algorithm and Future Job Markets53 Cooperative Game Theory and the Core; 54 The Babylonian Talmud and India's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code; 55 The Shapley Value and Legislative Power; 56 Judicial Primacy is Not the Same as Exclusivity; 57 Trump's Paris Agreement Pull-Out: Masterstroke or Farce?; 58 The Chaotic Consensus on Goods and Services Tax; 59 The Third Front in the 2019 Election; 60 The Game That Worked in Goa; 61 The Perils of Plurality in India; 62 Rescuing Game Theory from the Game Theorists; Index; About the Author