Project Sherlock

Essay

2017

The Evolution of Trust

Nicky Case

An interactive walk through Axelrod's tournament and the iterated prisoner's dilemma, showing why tit-for-tat strategies let cooperation emerge, spread, and collapse under different rules of the game.

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Filed under Game Theory & Mechanism Design in Economics.