Game Theory Explains the Weird Things You Do
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People do puzzling things. We buy things to impress strangers, give to charities without checking whether they work, and dig in during negotiations even when a deal would help everyone. Game theory suggests there's a logic underneath all of it. In their 2022 book, Hidden Games, Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli show how hidden incentives shape everything from fashion to altruism. Then Yale professor Barry Nalebuff's 2022 book, Split the Pie, takes that thinking to the negotiating table and asks whether we've been arguing over the wrong number all along. Two books about the games we play, whether we know it or not.
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