Game Theory for Humans
You’re Playing a Game Right Now From maneuvering in traffic and negotiating a salary to navigating social relationships, you are constantly playing games. This isn’t to say life is trivial, but that we are all participants in a complex web of interactions where the outcome depends on the choices of others. Game theory is the formal study of these interactions, but its findings often run contrary to our intuition. It reveals that the logical underpinnings of our behavior can lead to strange, surprising, and sometimes unsettling outcomes. ...