Index_P

P

Pakistan

brinksmanship in, 246

nuclear dilemma and, 132

Palamedes, 186–187

Parenting, 8–9

Patents, 76

holdups and, 201–202

People reading, 40

Pessimism, 160–161

Pharmaceutical companies, 27–30

Pilots, bribery and, 209

Poison pills, 23–27

dilution of, 25–26

Politics

bribery and, 210–211

fixed-sum games and, 82

Nash equilibria and, 110–111

Posner, Richard, 266

Poundstone, William, 266

Pressure, 174–175

Preventative medicine, 225

Price competition, 273

definition of, 43–45

Internet, 46–47

Price discrimination, 183–184

airlines and, 188

bundling and, 191–194

college tuition and, 185

coupons and, 187

examples of, 189–190

future of, 190

Greek mythology and, 186–187

movie tickets and, 184–185

pitfalls of, 194

upgrades and, 190

Pricing. See also Suicide pricing, 36–37

all-you-can-eat, 190–191

antitrust laws and, 140

complex, 47–48

dangers of, 40

entry deterrence and, 38–39

fluctuations, 147

insurance and, 212

Internet, 133

most favored customer agreements and, 147–148

movie, 184–185

Nash equilibria and, 106–110

prisoners’ dilemma and, 118–120, 140–141

signal jamming and, 168

sunk costs and, 109

wars, 46

Principles of Microeconomics (Mankiw), 266

Prison riots, 14–15

Prisoner’s Dilemma (Poundstone), 266

Prisoners’ dilemma, 106, 279–283

accounting and, 128–129

antitrust laws and, 120

applying, 150

at workplace, 122–123

benefiting from, 144–147

chaos and, 147

contract law and, 127–128

cooperation and, 141–143

definition of, 115–117

envy and, 139

evaluating, 121–123

evolution and, 148–149

hidden action in, 143

implicit agreements and, 139–141

irrationality and, 135–136

legal system and, 128

Mafia’s solution to, 118–119

nuclear dilemma and, 131–132

oilmen’s dilemma and, 129

pricing and, 118–120

reference letters and, 121–122

repeated, 133–135, 136–139, 145–147

running away and, 130–131

smoking and, 137–138

sports and, 123–126

strategies, 118–119

tragedy of the commons and, 132–133

World War I and, 142

Producers, The, 176

Production, competition and, 40

Profits

government intervention and, 28–30

Internet retailing and, 47

maximizing, 40

Publishing, 189