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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.
Game Theory Deconstructed
Game Theory Deconstructed
Sometime in the early years of the new millennium, the Nobel Prize-winning game theorist Robert Aumann was addressing a press conference in Mumbai. An eager correspondent asked, ‘Tell me, Professor Aumann, in a word, what is game theory?’ Aumann, who looks like a Biblical prophet with his flowing white beard and his crystal-clear blue eyes, paused for a moment. Then he smiled, a broad smile that lit the very corners of his eyes: ‘Let me tell you a story’, he said.
During the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev was addressing a press conference in New York. He was buttonholed by a reporter: ‘In a word, President Khrushchev, what is the state of the Soviet economy?’ the reporter asked. Khrushchev, known to ...
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