Game Theory

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• A math puzzle about splitting land

  
  Mind Your Decisions — Authority: 108
  A father is splitting up land among his two sons in estate planning. How can he divide the land fairly? One approach is to split the land evenly. But even this method can get complicated if we add some realistic assumptions. Today’s puzzle illustrates why splitting land can be a mind-boggling exercise. The ...
  2 days ago

• If You Commit to Your Women Her Attraction Will Wane

  
  Gucci Little Piggy — Authority: 128
  Various voices in the blogosphere think that the way to a happy, healthy long-term relationship for a man is to obtain a "deeper" connection with their woman. Doing so gets past all the games and allows the couple to flourish on a spiritual, emotional, and mental level. Im all for getting deeper - doggystyle is ...
  3 days ago

• Confessions of a Generic Magazine

  
  The Pirate's Dilemma — Authority: 405
  Are You Generic? launched this back in 2006, but I just stumbled across it on Wooster Collective looking for something else and thought it was worth reposting. The magazine business is breaking because everything written on that insert is true. Share This
  4 days ago

• A Game Theoretical Theory of the Bailouts and CEO Salary Cuts

  
  Market Power — Authority: 507
  Charles Gasparino has an interesting column in the WSJ in which he details the bailout mania that seems to have gripped the Feds over the past 30 years.  He argues that repeated past actions by the Feds since the 1980s have shown that the next time that large financial institutions find themselves in dire straights ...
  5 days ago

• Mixed Strategy Game Theory in College Football

  
  Market Power — Authority: 507
  In game theory, a pure strategy is where a player does not randomize between options.  For many game situations, this is not an optimal way to play the game.  Would a prison guard want to always to do his rounds in exactly the same fashion time after time after time?  No because the prisoners will rationally expect ...
  5 days ago

• I Listen To: The Roots

  
  BANDIT — Authority: 129
    If you watch the Jimmy Fallon show, chances are that you know them from there as the house band, and may even be surprised that they’re a pretty big deal also, when not stuck being his musical sidekicks. Well they are. The are the best hip hop band in the world, and probably one of the most underrated at the ...
  6 days ago

• Round of Interesting Economist Articles in the last couple of weeks

  
  Andrew White — Authority: 414
  October 24 th -30 th Briefing: America’s Public Debt – Tomorrow’s Burden .  An up to date review of the dire situation we find ourselves in.  You need to stay on top of this to appreciate the pickle we are in re politics and economics.  Our children will be materially impacted by this.  Schumpeter: The ...
  6 days ago

• Rock, Paper, Scissors…

  
  360 — Authority: 112
  Rock, Paper, Scissors is alive and well in elementary schools, at least from what I can hear [and hear I do, nearly every day].  I figured it was a simple game, but it turns out that it’s maybe not as straightforward as I thought. The first sign was when we were watching Big Bang Theorey and Sheldon proposed a ...
  1 week ago

• How Effective Is International Law?

  
  IPE at UNC — Authority: 428
  It starts here (and with the Bloggingheads above), then here and here , then here , here , here , and ending (for now) here . The debate is centered on Posners new book, The Perils of Global Legalism , which I have not yet read but which seems to argue that international law is generally not effective. ...
  1 week ago

• How to sell a dollar for more than a dollar

  
  Trying Liberty — Authority: 419
  Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center InternOriginally found this video at Marginal Revolution
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• The ultimatum game played by children

  
  Mind Your Decisions — Authority: 108
  I came across a cute video about game theory. The video is about an experiment where children are asked to share a pile of chocolate coins. The twist to is they had to follow the rules of the ultimatum game . Specifically, here is how the game worked. One child got to offer a split of the chocolate (“9 pieces for ...
  1 week ago

• Online sales could reduce prices, but also limit choices

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): A new American study has found that while increasing online sales could lead to a dip in prices, customers would have a limited range of products to choose from.The research led by Yunchuan “Frank” Liu, a business professor at the University of Illinois will be published in Marketing ...
  1 week ago

• Does This Seem Familiar to Anyone?

  
  Mike Hammock's Blog — Authority: 98
  HT to Marginal Revolution for this: Art Carden and I did basically this exact same thing at Rhodes College for the last three years, making the exact same point regarding lobbying. Im sure Arts still doing it there now.
  1 week ago

• A nice 4 minute primer on the game theory of lobbying

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 137
  Via Alex Tabarrok .
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• Game Theory and the Use of Social Media

  
  Michelle's Blog — Authority: 400
  I’m reading a book called The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley . I found it on Trey Ratcliff’s book list , which is quite good and I recommend highly. The book features a perfect study to point out when someone says “Why should I waste my time with Twitter or ...
  1 week ago

• Is Iran Irrational?

  
  IPE at UNC — Authority: 428
  Jeffrey Goldberg passes along this quote from Yossi Klein Halevi: In the last few years, Israelis have been asking themselves two questions with increasing urgency: Should we attack Iran if all other options fail? And can we inflict sufficient damage to justify the consequences? As sanctions efforts faltered, ...
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• Banks In The Future

  
  The Ingenesist Project — Authority: 124
  You are hearing it here; these innovations are the most significant disruption that Wall Street cant possibly imagine. Money is a social agreement and these are the banks of the future. Although many come from the gaming industry, many games are modeled after the real world, therefore, transition back to the real ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fantasy Sports - Art vs. Science

  
  Blinders — Authority: 106
  In the classic post Art vs. Science , back when I used to post about poker, I made the case that a different set of skills were emphasized when playing cash games vs. tournament poker. Cash games were more science than art, and tournament poker was more art than science. Ultimately, to be successful at poker you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life (book review)

  
  Mind Your Decisions — Authority: 108
  One of the most common questions I get is, “Can you recommend an introductory book on game theory-a book without a lot of math?” When I first got this question, I was hard pressed to find an answer. Game theory is a mathematical science, and many presentations can be intimidating. For example, many journals and ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to simultaneously exchange information?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  How to simultaneously exchange information? Say a friend and I want to exchange pieces of information, but it is very important that we reveal the information at the same time (equivalently: neither of us know the others info at the time we commit to our own announcement). if we are in the same room, this is easy, ...
  2 weeks ago

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