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Game Theory

Browse through my articles on Game Theory.

A Conversation with Len Fisher
Popular Science, 7 January 2009
An interview on game theory for the popular science website Popsci.com, with many posted comments from interested readers.

Madoff's Willing Partners
The Washington Post, 20 December 2008
There seems to be little doubt that Bernard Madoff is a cheat. His apparent Ponzi scheme, in which capital from new investors would have been used to pay "dividends" to earlier investors, ultimately cost the participants many billions of dollars. But was it all Madoff's fault? I contend that the losses would have been less severe, and might not have occurred at all, if many of the Madoff's investors had not been cast from the same mold that Madoff was.

CEOs of Financial Institutions Should Now Light Their Pants on Fire
Len Fisher, Behind the Headlines: Game Theory in the News Blog, 19 December 2008
Can game theory help us in the current financial mess? According to some skeptics, the answer is no, because they believe that game theory can be manipulated to explain anything.

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