Economics · Game Theory & Mechanism Design
A topic within Game Theory & Mechanism Design, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Economics.
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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.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyRobert 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.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy