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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of von Neumann's second wife?

2. John von Neumann worked with what company to help design a faster, more compact computer?

3. Scientists working on the Manhattan Project were in a rush to complete the project before Russia and ____ could complete their similar projects.

4. When did the RAND Corporation become home to many distinguished scientists?

5. When the equilibrium solution is used in the prisoner's dilemma game model it leads to mutual ____.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Kriegspiel different from Chess or Tic-tac-toe?

2. Who originally suggested the RAND corporation and for what purpose?

3. Who helped Flood conduct his 100 prisoner's dilemmas experiments?

4. Who is Merrill Flood?

5. What were the results of Flood's experimental prisoner's dilemmas?

6. What kind of studies did RAND conduct?

7. What was the doctrine of deterrence during the Cold War and what did it mean?

8. Why did Bertrand Russell suggest and believe in the merits of preemptive nuclear war?

9. What are the details of one of the ethical dilemmas described in Chapter 1 of "Prisoner's Dilemma"?

10. How does von Neumann's game theory relate to economics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Prisoner's Dilemma and Chicken are two social dilemmas of fundamental importance in human affairs. Why? Explain the parameters of each dilemma in relation to real life and then discuss what makes each dilemma so important to human affairs. Also, conclude with which dilemma you feel is the most important of the two in regards to human affairs, and why.

Essay Topic 2

What were some of the key factors in the establishment of the RAND Corporation? What significant milestones from this place connect with von Neumann, as well as the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union? Why was RAND known for thinking about the unthinkable?

Essay Topic 3

In the 1980s game theory took an unexpected turn and evolutionary game theory was born. How did this happen? What was the logic behind the development of this theory? Aspects of what disciplines were used to create this evolutionary model? How did Robert Axelrod introduce a strategy based in human psychology to the traditional problem found in game theory?

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