Games People Play: Thinking Strategically with Game Theory

This is a practical applied course in game theory, that's about thinking strategically in any life situation, personal or professional.

Let's parse that.

• Game Theory: Almost every interaction we engage in involves participants with some level of conflict all trying to achieve their own goals. Game theory provides a scientific framework to analyze these situations and identify the best way forward.
• Thinking Strategically: Game theory requires you to analyze the motivations of every player, their value systems, strengths and weaknesses and how all of these interact with each other.

Here's what this course includes:

• Apply game theory and strategic thinking to real world situations : from social interactions to political maneuvering to military strategy.
• Understand the formal techniques involved in solving games : rollback analysis, finding Nash equilibrium
• Understand some standard games which apply to many situations : the Prisoner's dilemma, game of chicken, battle of the sexes
• Understand how to deal with situations with asymmetric information using techniques like signaling and screening

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What are the requirements?

• This course does not require any software

What is the target audience?