Game sutra: rescuing game theory from the game theorists/
Rohit Prasad
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2019.
- xvi, 280 p.
1 Game Theory Deconstructed 2 Common Knowledge and Counter-Strikes 3 How Rational Are You? 4 Does Donald Trump Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? 5 Is Game Theory a Value-Neutral Science? 6 The Centre of Gravity: The Nash Equilibrium 7 Returning to Rationality: The Prisoners' Dilemma 8 The Vulnerability of the Chinese Corridor 9 Searching for an Equilibrium in the India-China Game 10 War and Peace in the Heartlands of Maoism 11 Is It Silly Season in Indian Telecom? 12 Designing Legal Liability Rules to Fix Delhi's Winter Woes 13 Games Businesses Play 14 The Airtel-Jio Battle and the Limitations of Game Theory 15 Battles of the Bitcoin 16 The Collective Action Problem of Assurance 17 The Hapless Fate of an Alleged Spy 18 Telecom on the Rocks with a Twist of IUC 19 The NDA, the UPA and Two Types of Chicken 20 The Tragedy of the Planet's Environmental Wealth 21 The Waters of Our Discontent 22 Sequential Games and Rollback Equilibrium 23 Reliance Jio's Second-Mover Advantage 24 The 2016 US Elections: The Game of Ideologies 25 The Absolutism of Demonetization 26 Risks Posed by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 27 Every Democracy Needs a Little Disloyalty 28 The Fine Art of Making Threats 29 Will Threats Work against Pakistan? 30 The RBI and the Flip Flop Finance Ministry 31 Law and Orderin a Time of Lynch Mobs 32 How to Play Hardball and Get Away with It 33 North Korea is Not Really Cuba 34 Exaggeration in Brinkmanship is a Double-Edged Sword 35 Pseudo-Brinkmanship and the Sacrament of Marriage 36 The Twist in the Tale of Bihar's Political Chameleon 37 Hell Hath No Fury Like a Party Scorned 38 Navigating the Fog of War 39 The Inscrutable Silence of a Star Yogi 40 The Pure Politics of the Mercurial Mayawati 41 Rahul Gandhi and the Beer-'Dhokla' Game 42 Are Our Kids Really Smarter than We Were? 43 Giving Up Control to Achieve Unpredictability 44 When Being Paranoid is Ok 45 The Perfect Unpredictability of Roger Federer 46 How to Buy Cricketers and Coal Blocks 47 What the IPL can Learn from Telecom 48 The Giddy Tournaments of Capitalism 49 Re-Designing the Insolvency Auction to Optimize Value 50 The Auction That Runsthe Internet 51 AD Auctions: A Market for Horses 52 The Gale-Shapley Algorithm and Future Job Markets 53 Cooperative Game Theory and the Core 54 The Babylonian Talmud and India's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 55 The Shapley Value and Legislative Power 56 Judicial Primacy is Not the Same as Exclusivity 57 Trump's Paris Agreement Pull-Out: Masterstroke or Farce? 58 The Chaotic Consensus on Goods and Services Tax 59 The Third Front in the 2019 Election 60 The Game That Worked in Goa 61 The Perils of Plurality in India 62 Rescuing Game Theory from the Game Theorists.