eBay solved the prisoner's dilemma and created a market where none would have existed by creating a feedback mechanism that turns a prisoner's dilemma game into an assurance game.

Now, when I talked about this with Kevin Kelly, he assured me that everybody in this audience pretty much knows the details of the prisoner's dilemma, so I'm just going to go over that very, very quickly.

Another economic game that may not be as well known as the prisoner's dilemma is the ultimatum game, and it's also a very interesting probe of our assumptions about the way people make economic transactions.

A Star is Jailed

The prisoner's dilemma is actually a story that's overlaid on a mathematical matrix that came out of the game theory in the early years of thinking about nuclear war two players who couldn't trust each other.

Twenty years ago, Robert Axelrod used the prisoner's dilemma as a probe of the biological question if we are here because our ancestors were such fierce competitors, how does cooperation exist at all?

The Ransom Dilemma

Putin s Dilemma

It is a difficult problem.

The Intervention Dilemma

The Paracetamol Dilemma

The Saver s Dilemma

Emperor Xi s Dilemma

The Enigma of European Defense

Another Fine Italian Mess

Iran s Nuclear Quandary

Blair s European Dilemma

The Debtor Prisoner s Dilemma

Taiwan u0027s Sovereignty Dilemma

The Big Bank Fix

The Corporate Tax Conundrum

The Dilemma of Multiculturalism

The Electric Car s Short Circuit

The Particle Emissions Dilemma

He is the son of the former political prisoner Valery Levaneuski.

Africa u0027s Debt Dilemma

Ukraine s Prisoner s Dilemma

Argentina s Energy Dilemma

The Capital Flow Conundrum

Japan faces a different conundrum.

Argentina s Debt Conundrum

And it should not have escaped you that the reason I paired the prisoner with his arms out with Leonardo da Vinci's ode to humanity is that that prisoner was mentally ill.

At the same time, the prisoner shall be informed about the possibility of filing a further complaint.

America s Employment Dilemma

China now faces a dilemma.

He started a computer tournament for people to submit prisoner's dilemma strategies and discovered, much to his surprise, that a very, very simple strategy won it won the first tournament, and even after everyone knew it won, it won the second tournament that's known as tit for tat.

A Way out of Tibet s Morass

The choice appalls voters.

Emerging Europe s Deleveraging Dilemma

As for the West, it is confronted with a dilemma.

This gives rise to an apparent chicken and egg problem between the occurrence of egregious violations and the failure of the domestic remedies system.

Upon written request, the prisoner shall also be issued a written copy of the decision.

Climate change is a real and serious problem.

France must sort out its relations with NATO and the role it intends to play in transatlantic forums.

President Basher al Assad of Syria faces a similar dilemma.