U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless you look at what's happening through the lens of ...

Game theory is the study of how we make decisions ... Israel and the U.S. are playing a three-way game of chicken involving cyber warfare and potential nuclear annihilation. To see how this ...

Game theory does allow for that kind of unpredictability, but that's only in some games. Chicken is actually one in which you can be tough or you can be cooperative. But there's a third ...

Let’s frame the madman theory with a simple thought experiment in game theory, called chicken. (It’s one variant of another game theory called Prisoner’s dilemma.) In this model of conflict ...