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Salary structures, 223

Sales

fraud, 233

incentives, 226–227

Satan, outguessing games and, 65–66

Saudi Arabia, 143

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 180

Search and rescue, 215–216

SEC

Arthur Andersen and, 129

investment banks and, 160

Security deposits, 156

Self-selection, 186–187

airlines and, 188

coupons and, 187

gadgets and, 189–190

movies and, 189

of customers, 187

publishing and, 189

supermarkets and, 189

theme parks and, 189

Sequential games, 271

definition of, 7–8

Sex and Reason (Posner), 266

Sexual abuse, adverse selection and, 158

Shakespeare, William, 195

Shapiro, Carl, 266

Shareholder democracy, 23

Short-term trading, 260–261

Signal jamming, 168–169

Signaling

celebrity endorsements and, 170

education and, 164–165

fitness, 166–167

racism and, 165–166

silent, 172–174

Silence, 172–174

Simultaneous games, 273–277

definition of, 51–52

predicting, 56

strategies, 52–54

Singapore, 163–164

Skeath, Susan, 265

Slate.com, 112

Smith College, 14, 208

dailyjolt and, 94

Smith, Adam, 223, 230–231

Smoking, 3, 137–138

Soccer, 98

Software

bundling, 191–194

holdups, 197–198

network externalities and, 89–90

upgrades, 190

Sony Playstation 2, 95–96

Soviet Empire, 45

adverse selection and, 159

collective agriculture and, 230

Cuban missile crisis and, 77–79

prisoners’ dilemma and, 131–132

Spam, 110

Sports, 98

college, 125–126

prisoners’ dilemma and, 123–126

Spying, 74–75

Stalin, Joseph, 159

collective agriculture and, 229–230

Stern Stewart, 234

Steroids, 123

Stock

analysts, 160, 258

ownership, 298n5

sharing, 231–232

Stock market

commentators, 257–259

long-term prospects and, 260

manipulation, 234–235

predicting, 259–260

randomness of, 264

returns, 261–262

short-term trading, 260–261

Stores, chain, 37–38

Strategies

dominant, 52–54

dominated, 294n3

Nash equilibria and, 112

of outguessing games, 68–69

prisoners’ dilemma, 118–119

stupid, 54

Warren Buffet and, 57–58

Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory, 266

Strikes

airlines and, 198–199

brinksmanship and, 246–247

Suicide, 32

Suicide pricing, 35

chain stores and, 37–38

pharmaceutical companies and, 27

Sun Microsystems, 91

Sunk costs, 27–28

insurance and, 214

pricing and, 109

Superbowl, 263

Supermarkets, 189

Survivorship bias, 263–264

Sutton, Willie, 207