In this, a "stag hunt" is a situation where one must choose between safety and cooperation.
The RAND Corporation pursued studies into this due to application to nuclear strategy, and Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher developed a famous problem within this while at RAND. In this, a "stag hunt" is a situation where one must choose between safety and cooperation. The types of namesake entities include symmetric and zero-sum. Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann founded this field of mathematics. One solution concept in this field sees all players making the best choice while accounting for other players; that solution is called Nash equilibrium. Identify this study of strategic decision making, of which the most famous example is the Prisoner's Dilemma.
The RAND Corporation pursued studies into this due to application to nuclear strategy, and Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher developed a famous problem within this while at RAND.
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