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Heritage Project — The Prisoner’s Dilemma

November 1, 2021
Estimated reading time: 1 minutes
Robert Axelrod, today a professor emeritus in the Ford School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, encountered the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a young man in the 1960s. It is the most famous puzzle in the scientific field called game theory, the mathematical analysis of strategic interactions between rivals.
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