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• Penn Jillette says it well

  
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  In this post, I explained why I want to throw my vote away. Penn Jillette agrees with me and explains it better than I in this video. Here’s what he said: I believe that voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory will always leads to more evil. Filed under: Critical Thinking , Liberty , Politics ...
  2 days ago

• PBR, once again, by Arnold Kling

  
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  Kyle writes , Klings line is very simple: 1. Ideal regulatory systems can be modeled as games. 2. Regulators *try* to solve problem by creating regulations. 3. The regulated participants *try* to circumvent regulations by following the letter of the law, avoiding the intent. 4. In any system where there is ...
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• The book reviewer vs the autograph-seeker: the secret to consistent success with women

  
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  I like books. A lot. So I go to book readings whenever a good one pops up in the neighborhood. Now book signings have straightforward protocols. You find a seat. You listen to the author talk about his book. Then you buy a copy, stand in line, and get 14.8 seconds with the author while he scrawls your name in there ...
  4 days ago

• Nothing Adds Up & The Dice Are Loaded - part 1 of ?

  
  Armchair Arcade - Chronicling the Complete History of Videogames and Computers — Authority: 109
  Hello everyone. Im back after another long hiatus, brought on by that pesky "Real Life" stuff. This time, Im coming at you with another multi-part article. In it, I want to discuss two concepts which should be near and dear to any gamers heart: Zero-sum games, or zero-sum outcomes The danger and difficulty of ...
  4 days ago

• Points around a circle game

  
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  100 points are chosen around a circle. Alice draws a line connecting two of the points with a line segment. Bob and Alice move in turn, but the line segment cannot cross any of the previously drawn lines. A player who cannot draw a suitable line loses. What’s the winning strategy and who has it? . . . . . . . ...
  5 days ago

• Social Choice Theory Slides

  
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  Social choice View more presentations from rik0
  6 days ago

• August 1991 Putsch

  
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  Last August was the 20th anniversary of the short-lived revanchist coup in the USSR, which led directly to the break up of the Soviet Empire.   That the coup was ultimately unsuccessful was due in large part to the bravery of Boris Yeltsin and the citizens of Moscow who protested publicly against the coup.  Their ...
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• Unit 2 Macro: Evaluation on Supply-Side Policies

  
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  Lots of students will be revising the economics of supply-side policies this week with their AS macro paper coming into view. There are different interpretations of what constitutes a supply-side policy measure. I like to label SSP (supply-side policy) to any policy or group of measures where emphasis is given to ...
  6 days ago

• Don’t Love Games? Step Away From the Gamification

  
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  Games.  I love them.  Board games, card games, video games and anything else you can put the word games after.  I play them, I write about them, I think about them, I dream about them and from time to time I even try my hand at making them ( http://www.fuzzyd.co.uk/robbers ).  So what does this have to do with ...
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• Oxbridge Economics: Introduction to Game Theory

  
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  Here is an “Introduction to Game Theory” lecture, which offers a broad introduction to the field, with some exercises to do at the end. (The yellow-underlined text hyperlinks out to other resources). The document can be downloaded below: Game_Theory_Intro_and_questions_2009.pdf And for those of you who ...
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• Why Gas Stations Are So Close To Each Other

  
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  Have you ever noticed that you rarely see a gas station by itself?  Instead multiple gas stations seem to be clustered close to each other.  Wouldn’t it be better if they were more spread out? Presh Talwalkar noticed this phenomenon and used game theory to explain why it’s a rational decision for the gas ...
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• Traversing Infinite Space

  
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  In March 2010 Sega released a game that got us really excited here at Nuketown : It was Infinite Space , a Space Opera JRPG for the DS that promised customizable fleet to fleet combat. Unfortunately, as our Editor lamented about on Radio Active #84 , combat isn’t very easy to understand. It looks like a very ...
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• Saturday Learning Series - Imperfect Information

  
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  Game theory is an economic discipline, here continuing to be taught by Yale professor Ben Polak at Yale.  In this lecture (a continuation of a series), the topic is about dealing with imperfect information and its impact on the outcomes.
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• Game Theory: working papers (RePEc, 19/05/2012)

  
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  Source : NEP (New Economics Papers) |  RePEc A Strategic Implementation of the Average Tree Solution for Cycle-Free Graph Games Date: 2012-05-07 By: Rene van den Brink (VU University Amsterdam) Gerard van der Laan (VU University Amsterdam) Nigel Moes (VU University Amsterdam) URL: ...
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• Sometimes, it’s all about attitude.

  
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  Dear Agent-person, Earlier this year I self-published a book. Said book sold about 100 copies in the first month. About 200 copies the second month. 300 copies last month. It broke that number in the first two weeks of this month. And the rate of increase is still growing. And that’s just with my feeble efforts to ...
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• Game Theory: working papers (RePEc, 11/05/2012)

  
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  Source : NEP (New Economics Papers) |  RePEc Unbeatable Imitation Date: 2012-04 By: Duersch, Peter (University Heidelberg) Oechssler, Jorg (University Heidelberg) Schipper, Burkhard C. (University CA, Davis) URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ecl:ucdeco:2012-05&r=gth   JEL: ...
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• Does it pay to be clever?

  
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  Why are we so clever? In evolutionary terms this isnt obvious:evolution tends to favour cheap solutions and the human brain isexpensive. It consumes about 20% of our bodys energy budget yet it only makes up 2% of our bodymass. So why did it make evolutionary sense for ushumans to develop powerful brains? Game theory ...
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• The fox which wasn’t there.

  
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  I was doing a little maintenance weeding on my asparagus bed this morning. It was the perfect time for it – cool and grey, two days after long soaking rains. The weeds were coming up root and all. A couple doors down I could hear sounds of construction work. Seems like they’re always doing something to that ...
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• Game theory, in the real world

  
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  For students in New York and Boston, who have a range of options beyond their neighborhood school, choosing a high school used to be a maddeningly complicated guessing game. In Boston, for instance, many students would list their three top school choices — but were not guaranteed acceptance at any of them. That ...
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• The wallet game: a neat auction

  
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  Imagine you are taking a game theory class, and the professor announces an experiment. You and another student are called up to the front of the classroom to participate in an auction. Here is how the auction works: –the prize money equals the sum of money in both of your wallets –the winner is determined by ...
  3 weeks ago

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