Showing posts with label Game Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Game Theory. Show all posts
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Are you sponge worthy?

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In an episode of the television sitcom Seinfeld, Elaine Benes’s favorite contraceptive sponge is taken off the market. She scours pharmacie...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Can Spain beat the Dutch playing Dutch Football

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“I am Dutch,” Cruyff said last week to El Periódico in Spain, where he lives. “But I will always defend the football Spain play.” That is ...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Schelling Quote- The Very Basics of Game Theory

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"If I go downstairs to investigate a noise at night, with a gun in my hand, and find myself face to face with a burglar who has a gun i...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Elinor Ostrum in South Asia

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In the south Asian context, the key contribution by Elinor Ostrom , along with other scholars (Shivakoti and Ostrom 2002) has been to provid...
Friday, April 3, 2009

G-20 and John Nash

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Essential task for G20 leaders is a cinema trip to see 'A Beautiful Mind' by Mohamed A El-Erian and Mike Spence; The US is in the g...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

More Game Theory from Middle East

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In early summer 1995, a few months before his assassination, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin asked Jordan's King Hussein to approach Iraqi ...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Photo caption contest

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Israelis watched smoke rise above the northern Gaza Strip
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Traffic Guru

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us Which one do you think is the American cover and which is the British cover? ...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Top Reformer goes at it again

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Moments after President Bush appeared at the Rose Garden to say that the Pentagon would begin a humanitarian aid mission to support Georgia,...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Was the Top Reformer stupid?

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Interesting observations on the Russia and Georgia war from Belgravia Dispatch ; Which brings me to a fifth point, and perhaps a more proxim...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Coming Monday! Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Iran

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Coming Monday on Econ Talk! Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security Related; The Economist who can predict the future T...
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Monday, August 4, 2008

Can you deter a suicide terrorist?

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Is 4Ds (Deterrence, Dissuasion, Defense and Defeat) the best way to deal with terrorism? Related; START
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Suicide Bombing Fact of the Day

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More than 85 percent of female suicide terrorists since 1981 committed their attacks on behalf of secular organizations; many grew up in Chr...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Why Israel should attack Iran

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A great Israeli economist explains why war is rational; But one Israeli columnist writes ; For or against bombardment, Israel never thinks i...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Assorted

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The Dark Knight and Game Theory The Joker’s Trap Chris Blattman On Writing reading list Are We a Nation of Financial Illiterates? Deterring ...
Friday, July 11, 2008

Iranian Revolutionary Guards sent for Photoshop training

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For more see The Lede
Friday, May 30, 2008

Long live the Choice Architects of the World

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As all women who have ever shared a toilet with a man can attest, men can be especially spacey when it comes to their, er, aim. In the priva...
Friday, April 25, 2008

21

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Kaplan, Muse of Film `21,' Uses Blackjack Theory at Work Bill Kaplan , chief executive officer of FreshAddress Inc., and a co-founder o...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Logistics of a Communion

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New York gets ready for the Pope's visit ; Among the profound — and mundane — questions they are confronting: How do 530 priests and dea...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Mostly Behavioral Economics

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The value of a coin or banknote depends on its familiarity ; To check this result was not caused by some prejudice in favour of paper money ...