Abstract
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.
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Rapoport, A. (2018). Prisoner’s Dilemma. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1850
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