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- Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Game Theory at Work - How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- What Exactly Is Game Theory?
- Chapter 2: Threats, Promises, and Sequential Games
- Controlling a Wild Daughter
- Eliminating Options
- Asking for a Raise
- Relinquishing Control
- Cutting Off Communications
- Kidnapping, Blackmail, and Honesty
- When Businesses Should Be Honest
- Deadline Difficulties
- Criminal Compensation
- Forgiveness
- Corporate Takeovers and Poison Pills
- Games Governments Play with the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Frightening Many with One Threat
- The Benefits of Insanity
- Entry Deterrence
- Chain Store Paradox
- Entry Deterrence Through Insanity
- Sane Methods of Entry Deterrence
- Reading People
- The Dangers of Price Competition
- Lessons Learned
- Chapter 3: The Dangers of Price Competition
- Stopping Price Wars with Credible Threats
- Internet Price Competition
- Using Complication to Reduce Price Competition
- Retail Price Maintenance
- Simultaneous Games
- Lessons Learned
- Chapter 4: Simultaneous Games
- A Billionaire s Political Strategy
- More Challenging Simultaneous Games
- Chapter 5: Massive Coordination Games
- Attack of the Clones: An Extremely Brief History of the Personal Computer Industry
- Success, Failure, and Network Externalities
- Competing Against Microsoft and Intel
- Java s Threat to Microsoft
- Externalities in Word Processing Programs
- Where We Live
- Online Bulletin Boards
- VHS versus Beta
- Video Game Wars
- ATT Creates Network Externalities
- High-Definition TV
- Money
- Lotteries and Sports
- Coordination
- Nash Equilibrium
- Lessons Learned
- Chapter 6: Nash Equilibria
- Nash Equilibrium Pricing Games
- Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
- Competing on the Line
- Shoe Stores
- Nash Equilibrium
- Prisoners Dilemma
- Lessons Learned:
- Chapter 7: Prisoners Dilemma
- Pricing Dilemmas
- Evaluating Dilemmas
- The Evaluated Ones Dilemma
- Professional Sports Dilemma
- CEO Recruitment
- Contract Law s Solution to Prisoners Dilemma
- Do the Rich Always Want To Win Legal Cases?
- Accountants Honesty
- Oilmen s Dilemma
- Why Do We Get In Taxicabs?
- Run Away, Run Away
- Nuclear Dilemma
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Repeated Prisoners Dilemma with a Last Period
- Envy, the Deadliest of Sins