1. Game Theory short

2. What a "Game" means in Game Theory. Rivalry is direct. In "Zero-Sum" games you win just what the other guy loses. Economic market games are often non-zero sum. Noncooperative often. Oligopolistic.

3. Who needs to study Game Theory? We will do two-person games in this course.

5. Nash Equilibrium: A set of strategies such that each player believes accurately that he is doing the best he can given the strategy of the other player.

6. Nash as a young man Nash as a Nobel Prize Winner The book and the Oscar-winning movie.

7. Barkley A B Allied I II

10. Applications of Game Theory outside of economics: Prisoner's Dilemma MAD our historical Cold War policy on nuclear attack missiles and our defensive system.

12. Does Cheating Pay?

13. Before Most-favored Customer Clause

14. After Most-Favored Customer Clause

15. Walmart Case: Preemptive strategies.