Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust: How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives

Introduction......Page 7
(How to Lose Many Friends Really Fast)......Page 9
Chapter 2 The Blackmailer’s Paradox......Page 13
Chapter 3 The Ultimatum Game......Page 18
Chapter 4 Games People Play......Page 25
Spotlight The Keynesian Beauty Contest......Page 40
Nash Equilibrium, Buffaloes, Matchmaking and the Nobel Prize)......Page 43
Intermezzo The Gladiators Game......Page 59
Chapter 6 he Godfather and the Prisoner’s Dilemma......Page 61
Chapter 7 Penguin Mathematics......Page 70
Intermezzo The Raven Paradox......Page 77
(A Brief Introduction to Auction Theory)......Page 79
Intermezzo The Newcomb Paradox......Page 86
Chapter 9 The Chicken Game and the Cuban Missile Crisis......Page 88
Chapter 10 Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics......Page 95
Chapter 11 Against All Odds......Page 106
Chapter 12 On Fairly Sharing a Burden......Page 111
Chapter 13 Trust Games......Page 115
Chapter 14 How to Gamble If You Must......Page 120
Conclusion Game Theory Guidelines......Page 123
Reference Notes......Page 125
Bibliography......Page 128