http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/cornell-info204/2008/02/22/hezbollah-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/ This is a supplemental blog for a course which will cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:23:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/cornell-info204/2008/02/22/hezbollah-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/#comment-552 retiree Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:42:26 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/cornell-info204/2008/02/22/hezbollah-and-the-prisoners-dilemma/#comment-552 Slate magazine, source of the article quoted in this post, has had several articles on game theory over the years, including this one http://www.slate.com/?id=2065830 that discusses Sharon and Arafat, neither of whom are players today (Arafat died; Sharon is still alive but has been in a coma for two years). The article,which despite the change in players is still applicable, is based in part on arguments by Thomas Schelling, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005 with Robert Aumann, an Israeli game theorist (see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2005/). Slate magazine, source of the article quoted in this post, has had several articles on game theory over the years, including this one http://www.slate.com/?id=2065830 that discusses Sharon and Arafat, neither of whom are players today (Arafat died; Sharon is still alive but has been in a coma for two years). The article,which despite the change in players is still applicable, is based in part on arguments by Thomas Schelling, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005 with Robert Aumann, an Israeli game theorist (see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2005/).

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