Prisoner's Dilemma: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''Prisoner's Dilemma = famous thought experiment in Game Theory, about selfishness vs. altruism in the context of human cooperation.''' | '''Prisoner's Dilemma = famous thought experiment in Game Theory, about selfishness vs. altruism in the context of human cooperation.''' | ||
| Line 20: | Line 19: | ||
[[Category:Encyclopedia]] | [[Category:Encyclopedia]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Relational]] | ||
Revision as of 09:07, 2 July 2006
Prisoner's Dilemma = famous thought experiment in Game Theory, about selfishness vs. altruism in the context of human cooperation.
More Information
See for a good review of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, this entry of the Wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
In this essay, defending the possibility of ‘anarchist cooperation’ as a model of society, the author reviews the objections of the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma, arguing that they are superseded in case of repeated re-iteration, see http://www.spunk.org/texts/misc/sp000161.txt
The following text is a good defense of the use of game theory in scientific research, at http://www.geocities.com/hmelberg/elster/AR82MFGT.HTM
The Prisoner's Dilemma is often contrasted to the Assurance Game