Game-theory software played an important role in finding Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, says Mr Owen.
But game-theory software can also work well outside the sphere of economics.
In cases where the game-theory models say that one would be very unlikely to appear, this new factor pushes the other way, making competition more likely than before.
Game-theory software can even help locate a terrorist's hideout.
We quickly realized that technically what we had engineered was out of the reach of most individuals and many nonprofits and that most didn't understand the basic game-theory of crowd-sourced fund raising.
The savviest nonprofits won't cross their fingers and hope the next generation finds them, they'll use new tools and new game-theory to reach supporters, quickly leaving behind the gross inefficiencies of expensive dinner-plate events.
As Mr Lott says, a chief strand of the game-theory account of predatory pricing relies on the idea that incumbent firms have an advantage over would-be entrants they know more, especially about their own costs, than newcomers do.
Desperate for a way to show the pipelines they were better off together, an Aerie executive used game theory to design a mock online auction of rights-of-way.
There is a theory in some quarters that the old-school video game console is on its way out.
In a provocative paper based on game theory, Mr Basu argues for the legalisation of some kinds of bribe-giving.
Now we see President Barack Obama engaged in this same game regarding federal tax policy and financing for a so-called jobs plan based on the same Keynesian theory that he just proved fallacious yet again, as has been proved over and over since the 1930s.
The first is the attempt to construct a logically compelling theory of self-interested altruism and reciprocity, enlisting anthropologists, Enlightenment philosophers and today's game theorists to do so.
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