Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Lecture

2005

War and Peace

Robert J. Aumann

Argues that repeated interaction, not innate goodwill, is what sustains cooperation among rational, self-interested agents, and folds the logic of iterated games into a broader theory of conflict and peace.

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The Strategy of ConflictThomas C. Schelling, 1960Argues that in games with more than one equilibrium, players converge on a shared 'focal point' suggested by precedent or convention rather than by strategic calculation alone.

Filed under Game Theory & Mechanism Design in Economics.