Around the prisoner's dilemma

The following sections are included:

• What is a two-player game?

• Prisoner's dilemma. Dominated strategies and Pareto optimality

• Prisoner's dilemma for crooks, warriors and opera lovers

• Discrete duopoly models and common pool resources; public goods

• Common knowledge, rationality and iterated elimination of strictly dominated strategies

• Weak dominance; debtors and creditors

• Nash equilibrium

• Battle of the sexes and Kant's categorical imperative

• Chicken game and the Cuban missile crisis

• Social dilemmas

• Guaranteed payoff, minimax strategy, hedge

• Utility function

• General objectives of game theory; Pascal's wager