Games People Play: Thinking Strategically with Game Theory

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Course Description

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?

  • Yep! Anyone curious to understand how to formally analyze strategic situations
  • Yep! Anyone curious to gain a practical applied understanding of game theory

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Loonycorn

Loonycorn is comprised of a couple of individuals —Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Stanford. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

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