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Game theory is the study of interactive decision making-- that is, in situations where each person's action affects the outcome for the whole group.

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Three Ways to Protect Your Email Privacy Using Low-Tech Encryption (Caesar Cipher, Vigenère Cipher, Three-Pass Protocol)

Why eBay and Craigslist are Similar in Theory: the Revenue Equivalence Theorem

What is Auction Theory?

What do You Want to Know about Auctions?

The Leaders Dilemma: How to Generate Cooperation at Home or Work

The Hat Puzzle (A Consulting or Engineering Interview Brain Teaser)

Manage Your Brand like Michael Jordan: Avoid Gossip Wars and Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

Focal Points (or Schelling Points): How We Naturally Organize in Games of Coordination

Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby

Winning a “Beauty Contest,” Or How My Game Theory Professor Gambled $250 Teaching a Lesson

The Game Theory of the Bar Scene Problem From “A Beautiful Mind.” Should I Buy New or Used?

Markets Aren’t Perfectly Competitive: The Game Theory of Why a Smoking Ban Might Make Sense

Use Randomization to Cut Costs in Security and Enforcement–It Worked for American Airlines

Make Money By Assuming the Best (Rationality) but Allows for the Worst (Irrationality)

Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and The Voting Paradox

Dealing With an Auto Mechanic and the Principal-Agent Problem

Dividing a Restaurant Bill Using Mechanism Design

How Expectations and Adaptation Affect Surprises in Game Theory

The Ultimatum Game and The Hollywood Writer’s Strike

How Can I Find True Love Using Game Theory?

Separating Equilibrium: Why Expensive Gifts Aren’t Always Proportionally Better

The Tragedy of the Commons: Working During Holidays and Why Thanksgiving Almost Didn’t Happen

The Strategy of Surprise: Will the Fed Cut the Rate Next Week?

Strategic Commitments: How to Lose Weight and Live up to New Years Resolutions

The Non-Mathematical Guide to Fixed Point Theorems and Proving Nash Equilibria Exist

Understand Counteroffers Through Game Theory and Three Questions

Outcome Obsession: The Problem of Mechanism Design, as Demonstrated in Baseball

Rapid Inventory Turnover: How Clothing Sales Are Going Away. The Problem of Using Money Tips

How Can You Use Mechanism Design to Improve Your Finances? It’s as Easy as Splitting a Coke

How Can You Stop Free Riders and Games of Chicken? Try Changing the Game

How You Can Threaten Many People at Once Using Game Theory, and the RIAA Legal Victory

Multiple Equilibria in Coordination Games: Getting to Better Outcomes

Truels, or How Game Theory Predicts Survival of the Weakest

The Strategy of Limiting Options: Why Less Can Be More

Game Theory on Eating at a Party with an Indian Host

Strictly Dominated Strategies are Stupid Choices

Why Price Matching Guarantees May Not Help Consumers–The Bertrand Model

How Can I Make My Threat Credible Using Game Theory?

What is a the Formal Definition of a Game?

What is Game Theory?