{"product":{"product_id":"038541580X","title":"Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb","price":"16.99","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51JDofUSNLL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/038541580X"},"comments":[{"body":"There is an excellent book by William Poundstone called “The Prisoners Dilemna”: https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X\r\n\r\nIt’s more than 100 pages, and covers a bit more than just game theory, but it’s an incredibly enjoyable read.","subreddit_name":"slatestarcodex","author":"emTel"},{"body":"There is a BBC series called The Trap.  It's more politics and about the link between the development of GT, RAND corp, and the rise of neoliberalism in the 80s and 90s.  It won't really provide any insights into game theory, but it's an interesting historical perspective. \r\n\r\nA good intro to GT for summer lite reading is Thinking Strategically (or the new version which has a somewhat changed name, I forget) by Dixit and Nalebuff. It's an excellent intro.  \r\n\r\nAnother good historical introduction is Poundstone who goes through the history of VonNeumann and the prisoners dilemma http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-William-Poundstone/dp/038541580X\r\n\r\nMore textbook specific is Dixit and Skeath, which is a rather basic intro text.  But it's less interesting.  \r\n\r\nYou don't really need any background in economics to learn game theory. ","subreddit_name":"Economics","author":"urnbabyurn"},{"body":"bak japonya demişken onu nasıl liberal liberal siktiklerini de anlatayım. madem rothbard, hoppe falan okumuşsun o zaman comperative advantage nedir bilirsin. japonyanın 60 ve 70'lerde televizyon ve otomotiv sektöründe abd'ye karşı comperative advantage'ı vardı. haliyle ne beklersin abd'den? bu iki sektörü bırakıp avantajı olduğu sektörlere yönelmesi değil mi? böyle olmadı: abd'li işçiler kalkıp da sokaklarda eylem yapmaya başladılar. abd kalkıp japonyaya dedi ki ya bize mal satmazsın ya da seni işgal ederiz: yıl 1985 amına koyayım... \r\n\r\nsonunda ne oldu, japonya tehditlere dayanamayıp plaza accord'u imzaladı ve kendi kendine \"voluntary export restrictions\" koydu, bak sen ya \"gönüllü ihraç kısıtlaması\", lan hangi gerizekalı kar ettiği malı satmayı gönüllü olarak bırakır serbest piyasada? sonuçta ne oldu: abd'nin televizyon ve otomotiv sektörü canlandı, japonya ise 1985'ten itibaren sıçışa geçti çünkü mal satabileceği kimse kalmadı, bu sebeple 1990'ları yaşayan nesile kayıp nesil dendi... [https://kendawg.medium.com/how-the-plaza-accord-helped-the-us-destroy-the-japanese-economy-b4b24c20a9af](https://kendawg.medium.com/how-the-plaza-accord-helped-the-us-destroy-the-japanese-economy-b4b24c20a9af) \r\n\r\nbak bir serbest ticaret örneği daha vereyim: 2002'de şarbon krizi patlayınca abd'de, abd gitti bayer'e dedi ki \"bize ilaç satacaksın\", bayer de dedi ki hay hay fiyat budur. abd dedi ki senin fiyatını sikerim, bizim istediğimiz fiyattan bize satacaksın, yoksa ulusal acil durum ilan eder, senin patentini askıya alır, korsan üretimi yasallaştırırız. bunu söyleyen de abd senatosu amk... bayer de dedi ki amına koyayım 0'a malı kaptırmaktansa, malı satacağım adamın istediği fiyattan vermek daha iyi dedi ve anlaştılar. sence bu \"serbest piyasa\" mı şimdi? Eğer bu serbest piyasa ise elinde ne var ise 1 tl’den bana satıyorsun hemen… \r\n\r\noğlum size liberal olmayın demiyoruz, ama liberal olacağım diye enayi olma yolunu seçiyorsunuz diğer ülkeler korumacılığın allahını uygularken... \r\n\r\nonu geçtim daha doğru düzgün positive sum game çözemiyor ya individual profit seeking motive, kalkıp nash dengesi falan kasman gerekiyor milletin birbirini sikmemesi için, en basitinden prisoners dilemma: [https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/game-theory/flood.html](https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/1998-99/game-theory/flood.html) bunu ortaya çıkartan ekonomistler de (flood ve dresher) Rand Foundation'dan ha ironiye gel... “William Poundstone, in Prisoner's Dilemma, says that \"Both Flood and Dresher say they initially hoped that someone...would 'resolve' the prisoner's dilemma. They expected...someone to ...come up with a new and better theory of non-zero-sum games...The solution never came...The prisoner's dilemma remains a negative result--a demonstration of what's wrong with theory, and indeed, the world.\" Bu kitap da güzeldir bak standford’daki elemanın bahsettiği: [https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X](https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-Neumann-Theory-Puzzle/dp/038541580X)","subreddit_name":"Turkey","author":"nullhypothesisisnull"},{"body":"\u0026gt;You're an extremely bad example for your country with your obnoxious nature of considering yourself superior to others\r\n\r\nPersonal attacks simply won't do, and you must learn to avoid them.  Ad hominem is the lowest form of debate.  \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;But having such resources does not always produce the desired outcomes, as the United States discovered in the Vietnam War.\r\n\r\nThe world attempts to misunderstand what happened in Vietnam, but let's boil it down to the most basic form:  The US decided to leave Vietnam.  Had the US been bent on hard power, they would have simply bombed North Vietnam into the stone age and occupied it.  It's not like anyone could stop that.  But the US never gave up on Vietnam, and continued with Soft Power.\r\n\r\nYou are setting yourself up as saying the US is about hard power and Germany is about soft.  And that soft matters.  But US soft power has made Vietnam and eager ally.  The only reason Vietnam is not buying F-15s right now is because [the US has a human rights issue with the regime and an arms embargo.](https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/22/politics/vietnam-united-states-friends/index.html)  Vietnam is [actively seeking US military, economic, and cultural interaction](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/11/18/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-vietnam-friend-need/#.XxcFhyhKiUk), and the relationship between the US and Vietnam [has consistently grown closer over the years](https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/evolution-us-vietnam-ties)\r\n\r\nThe French invented Soft Power as a deliberate national policy, but the US perfected it.  All of the metrics used above are conditions guaranteed by US hard and soft power.\r\n\r\n[The US sets the conditions for Soft Power to be a success](https://youtu.be/yXQTtFmizNs?t=217).  You need to pay attention to that lecture carefully, as I know that you don't understand post-war history in that way.  You will then need to verify that the lecture is factual.  This will take you some time.  If you did understand that lecture, you wouldn't be having this conversation right now.\r\n\r\nLet's look at your quote:\r\n\r\n\u0026gt;\"Major factors cited as reasons for the Long Peace have included the deterrence effect of nuclear weapons, the economic incentives towards cooperation caused by globalization and international trade, the worldwide increase in the number of democracies, the World Bank's efforts in reduction of poverty, and the effects of the empowerment of women and peacekeeping by the United Nations.\" \r\n\r\nPoint by point:\r\n\r\n1. The US instigated every major Arms limitation treaty involving nuclear weapons, provided most or all of the funds for disarmament ([Megatons to Megawatts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program), for example), funded Soviet nuclear waste cleanup, and provided [virtually all](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory) of the [intellectual](https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-William-Poundstone/dp/038541580X) and [diplomatic](https://www.state.gov/new-start/) framework for peace in the nuclear age.  The USSR did very, very little of that work, Europe less, and China none at all.  \r\n\r\n2. The US [invented the framework for economic co-operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system) and [began this effort after WWII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_and_Trade).  Reducing barriers to international trade is a hallmark of US soft power post-WWII, and it is that framework which created the Germany you now occupy.  Germany owes its economy to the United States and its use of soft power.  \r\n\r\n3. The US re-created [Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan) and [Germany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany) as Democracies.  The US [rebuilt West Germany](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_German_rearmament) to act as a deterrent buffer to the USSR.  It was US hard and soft power which [allowed Germany to exist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade).  The US [is by far the main promoted of Democracy in the world](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_promotion_by_the_United_States).  \r\n\r\n4. The World Bank [was established and funded by the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank) as part of the Bretton Woods agreements established by the US after WWII.  The entire concept of using money to reduce poverty, and therefore increase stability, is [a United States invention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan).  \r\n\r\n5. The United States established [women's suffrage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Japan) in Japan, and has promoted women's rights worldwide.  The modern microcredit system which specifically seeks to benefit women [was invented in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Institute_for_International_Development).\r\n\r\n6. The UN was [invented by America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#1942_%22Declaration_of_United_Nations%22_by_the_Allies_of_World_War_II).  Only the US had the hard power to support the UN after WWII.  The [first UN conference was held in San Francisco](https://www.un.org/en/sections/history-united-nations-charter/1945-san-francisco-conference/index.html), and the UN headquarters are [in New York City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations).  The US is [the largest funder of the UN, by far](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_United_Nations): \"The United States is the largest provider of financial contributions to the United Nations, providing 22 percent of the entire UN budget in 2020 (in comparison the next biggest contributors are China with 12 percent, and Japan with 8.5 percent).\"\r\n\r\nSo the US invented the modern version of soft power, the US maintains world stability by exercising soft power, promotes human rights that way, guarantees the prosperity of even her adversaries using soft power, and Germany would not exist if it were not for the exercise of US soft power.\r\n\r\nThat soft power is totally dependent on US hard power.  The Soviet Union did not listen to soft power, and neither does China.","subreddit_name":"Warships","author":"USOutpost31"},{"body":"Is it this one? I can't find one called just Game Theory\r\n\r\nPrisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb https://www.amazon.com/dp/038541580X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qB2EzbYH25WTR","subreddit_name":"philosophy","author":"random_boss"},{"body":"A couple of books that focus maybe a little more on the people that developed game theory than the theory itself, but I'll throw them out there anyway:\r\n\r\n* [Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb](http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-William-Poundstone/dp/038541580X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1342100485\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=prisoner%27s+dilemma) by William Poundstone.  Good biography of a fascinating character, which also covers the basics of game theory.\r\n\r\n* [A Beautiful Mind](http://www.amazon.com/A-Beautiful-Mind-Sylvia-Nasar/dp/1451628420/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1342100693\u0026amp;sr=8-4\u0026amp;keywords=beautiful+mind) by Sylvia Nassar.  Don't let the (IMO) shitty movie dissuade you from this one - this is an outstanding book.\r\n\r\n","subreddit_name":"math","author":"schnitzi"}]}