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Archive of 21 lectures in introductory game theory, from a course I delivered in semester 1 down under here in NZ Feb to June 2007 .

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  • Each clip is about 50 minutes. Downloadable versions (see mov or mp4 link just under the on screen viewer) usually have a menu; these are mostly screen capture and coordinated audio, with some overlays of class interaction (voyeuristic, but sometimes a little slow compared to lecture style...)
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John Fountain

Continue on with analysis of repeated games: tit for tat strategies, the "grim" strategy. Threats and promises may need to be made credible. We start with a simple 2x2 sequential "threat game", identify the credibility problem, and then see how it is resolved in a clip from a classic cult movie Dr Strangelove, available on a new special edition DVD. Fred Kaplan has an excellent review of this movie here.The lecture ends with a brief examination of the 10 methods for achieving credibile threats promises and comittments from Dixit and Skeath ch10.

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