Game sutra : rescuing game theory from the game theorists / Rohit Prasad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prasad, Rohit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Game theory.

Business enterprises--India--Mathematical models.

Business enterprises.

India--Politics and government--Mathematical models.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019.

Summary:

The telecom war between Reliance Jio and Airtel was only a preamble to the impending battle between Google and Jio. Nitish Kumar broke the mahagathbandhan while seeming to try to bend RJD to his will. All the schmoozing between Trump and Xi hasn't reduced the North Korean nuclear threat. Could we have predicted these outcomes before they actually happened? Yes we could have-not with IQ or EQ, but with 'Game Theoretic Quotient'. A new intelligence, a new way of looking at the world. Game Sutra highlights the underlying strategic considerations of entities as diverse as heads of state, bitcoin miners and CEOs of internet companies to explain their decisive choices. Immerse yourself in its heady mix of cogent fact and smart analysis to develop your 'game theoretic quotient'. Your world will never be the same again.

Contents:

Game theory deconstructed

Common knowledge and counter-strikes

How rational are you?

Does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?

The centre of gravity: the Nash equilibrium

Searching for an equilibrium in the India-China game

War and peace in the heartlands of Maoism

Is it silly season in Indian telecom

Designing legal liability rules to fix Delhi's winter woes

Games businesses play

The Airtel-Jio battle and the limitations of game theory

Battles of the Bitcoin

The collective action problem of assurance

The hapless fate of an alleged spy

Telecom on the rocks with a twist of chicken

The NDA, the UPA, and two types of chicken

The tragedy of the planet's environmental wealth

The water of our discontent

Sequential games and rollback equilibrium

Reliance Jio's second-mover advantage

The 2016 US elections: the game of ideologies

The absolutism of demonetization

Risks posed by the insolvency and bankruptcy code

Every democracy needs a little disloyalty

The fine art of making threats

Will threats work against Pakistan?

The RBI and the flip flop finance ministry

Law and order in a time of lynch mobs

How to play hardball and get away with it

North Korea is not really Cuba

Exaggeration in Brinkmanship os a double-edged sword

Pseudo-Brinkmanship and the sacrament of marriage

The twist in the tale of Bihar's political chameleon

Hell hath no fury like a party scored

Navigating the fog of war

The inscrutable silence of a star yogi

The pure politics of the mercurial mayawati

Rahul Gandi and the beer-'Dhokla' game

Are our kids really smarter than we were?

Giving up control to achieve unpredictability

When being paranoid is ok

The perfect unpredictability of Roger Federer

How to buy cricketers and coal blocks

What the IPL can learn from Telecom

The giddy tournaments of capitalism

Re-designing the insolvency auction to optimize value

The auction that runs the internet

AD auctions: a market for horses

The Gale-Shapley algorithm and future job markets

Cooperative game theory and the core

The Babylonian Talmud and India's insolvency and bankruptcy code

The shapley value and legislative power

Judicial primacy is not the same as exclusivity

Trump's Paris agreement pull-out: masterstroke or farce?

The chaotic consensus on goods and services tax

The third front in the 2019 election

The game that worked in Goa

The perils of plurality in India

Rescuing game theory from the game theorists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789353885694

9353885698

9789353285746

9353285747

9789353285739

9353285739

OCLC:

1104930587