Hezbollah and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Can game theory solve the Israel-Lebanon war?
By Tim Harford
http://www.slate.com/id/2146867/
This article discusses how game theory relates to the Israel-Lebanon war.  If Hezbollah were to attack Israel, Israel will respond with a far greater counter attack.  Unfortunately, Israel’s strategy has not deterred Hezbollah’s attacks.
This article addresses how economic theories such as the prisoner’s […]

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The listener’s access to music has been a form of great debate in the last decade. With Napster, the illegal downloading of music spread quickly and the media industry was dealt a hard blow. In the aftermath, many other programs arose and mimicked or expanded upon the new gateway to music. At Cornell, many students […]

Myrimis (my-risk-managenment+information-system) is a product of Nanomatic, a company which utilizes and initiates novel types of nano-information technology. Myrimis, “a secure place on earth,” [i] operates on Nanomatic’s Nanonavi, “personal navigation on earth.” [ii] Myrimis, in conjunction with Nanonavi, provides social-networking software that represents an evolutionary step in the company’s development of complex data networks […]

Lately in class we’ve been discussing social exchange theory, specifically, as it applies to the one-exchange game. As it turns out, some of its premises are largely applicable to the exchange dynamics of intimate relationships – interactions that take place in the marketplace for sex and love if you will. People look to maximize profit […]

 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/health/26fat.html?scp=7&sq=social+network&st=nyt Last summer, an article entitled “Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends” appeared in the New York Times. The story details a study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that when a person gains weight, their close friends also tend to gain weight. The study followed a group of participants from 1973 to […]

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal titled “How to Hunt for Jobs as Time Out of Work Drags On and On” touches on the importance of expanding social networks to find new jobs. According to the author, one way to expand your social network is to participate in volunteer work. This idea is […]

A recent New York Times article focuses on the development of companies who use the Web as a channel for strangers to collaborate and create business strategies. One company, Kluster, strongly believes in making the consumer the decider on what the next products are. Their motto, “Let’s decide on what’s next, instead of buying what’s […]

The SimExchange is a website which uses play money, and markets like those we have discussed in class to forecast video game sales. Predictive markets are a powerful use of concepts from class which one could imagine applying to a huge range of topics, including ones far more important than video games. In fact, […]

Social ties might not only predict power or influence over others, but also may have an effect on cognitive health as we age. In the New York Times article Forget Something? Then Read This, Richard Friedman discusses the importance of socializing in old age. Friedman mentions that scientists have known for a […]

The FTA, free trade agreement, between U.S. and South Korea was successfully signed by both nations in 04/02/2007. During the negotiations of the detailed parts of the agreement, both of the nations were careful in not falling into the Prisoner’s dilemma. Both U.S. and South Korea could insist on achieving the maximum profit from the […]