This reading serves as an extremely interesting overview of the six main variations of the prisoner’s dilemma and Game Theory. Currently, I am taking Rational Choice and Political Theory for PPEL, where we reviewed several of the topics discussed in this chapter literally today in class, when we were introduced to theories of decisions in which the decisions of others impact the choice options. In this reading, one of the forms of dilemmas that particularly interested me was the Battle of the Sexes dilemma. This is the situation that I related to the most, as there are often times that I collaborate with others seemingly against my own preferences due to the worse alternative of doing things alone. The best example of this I can think of is eating meals with friends, to which case I often eat at inconvenient times or unnecessarily spend money food because doing so with friends is better than eating when and what I prefer by myself. I am certain my fellow students can relate to this scenario.<\/p>\n
I was also particularly interested in this reading’s discussion of how to break many of the discussed dilemmas, by adding a third option that falls outside of the cheat-cooperate matrix. The author here gives the example of a kindergarten teacher offering ice cream to students who help clean up toys contrary to their defecting fellow students. This idea may have profound implications for issues of international affairs, specifically when it comes to the tragedy of the commons. If international organizations can create incentives of the type discussed, resource depletion could be slowed. For example, if the UN somehow rewarded countries that do not overuse fisheries in international waters, there would be less of an incentive to overfish out of fears of all countries doing the same. By making all dilemmas more like the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, in which there is no dominant strategy, many problems could be solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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