Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Diner's Dilemma: (How to Lose Many Friends Really Fast) 3
Chapter 2 The Blackmailer's Paradox 8
Chapter 3 The Ultimatum Game 15
Chapter 4 Games People Play 26
Spotlight The Keynesian Beauty Contest 48
Chapter 5 The Marriage Broker: (A Little on the Connections between the Nash Equilibrium, Buffaloes, Matchmaking and the Nobel Prize) 52
Intermezzo The Gladiators Game 76
Chapter 6 The Godfather and the Prisoner's Dilemma 78
Chapter 7 Penguin Mathematics 93
Intermezzo The Raven Paradox 104
Chapter 8 Going, Going … Gone!: (A Brief Introduction to Auction Theory) 107
Intermezzo The Newcomb Paradox 118
Chapter 9 The Chicken Game and the Cuban Missile Crisis 120
Chapter 10 Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics 131
Chapter 11 Against All Odds 147
Chapter 12 On Fairly Sharing a Burden 156
Chapter 13 Trust Games 162
Chapter 14 How to Gamble If You Must 169
Conclusion Game Theory Guidelines 173
Reference Notes 177
Bibliography 181