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Prisoner’s Dilemma

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The game nicknamed ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ by A.W. Tucker has attracted wide attention, doubtless because it has raised doubts about the universal applicability of the so called Surething Principle as a principle of rational decision.

This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman

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    Rapoport, A. (1987). Prisoner’s Dilemma. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1850-1

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