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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 is the most popular "solution" to the rational to cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma as explained in Chapter 11?
2. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?
3. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?
4. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?
5. Besides Chicken what other two-person, non-cooperative game gets a lot of attention?
Short Essay Questions
1. In relation to U.S. bomb development who was Harold Urey?
2. Who is Robert Axelrod and why did he hold tournaments?
3. What is the tit-for-tat strategy?
4. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after publicly advocating for so long?
5. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?
6. What is Bully?
7. In the nuclear war debate how did Francis Matthews figure?
8. What did a study reveal about the available bombs in the U.S. in 1947 and 1950?
9. What were the Ohio State studies?
10. What was an example of a public nuclear game of chicken and who was involved?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In 1971 Martin Shubik published the dollar auction in a 1971 paper and is generally credited as the inventor of this game. What was involved in a game called "so long sucker?" Who collaborated on this game and how did it lead to the development of the dollar auction? How does Shubik describe a dollar auction and what makes it different from an auction at Sotheby's? What applications did the dollar auction have to real life and how did the dollar auction embody the non-rational behavior that many expected in game theory games as part of the logic of escalation in conflict?
Essay Topic 2
What is Kriegspiel and where does it fit in the game theory arena in connection with how and when it was developed? How it was used and by whom? What were some of the social, political and military implications of this game?
Essay Topic 3
The volunteer's dilemma is the multi-person version of a game of chicken. Explain how this works, and discuss implications of the examples provided in Chapter 10 when no one "volunteer's" or when everyone or only some of the people volunteer. What happened when a magazine ran a volunteer's dilemma experiment, inviting readers to send in cards asking for $20 to $100?
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