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    Using Game Theory in Legislation

    I continue to advocate the use of game theory analysis in deal making and litigation, and believe the discipline supported successful efforts over the last twenty years.  More recently, I posed the idea of a required game theory analysis use as part and parcel of legislative processes.  Now Sri Lanka has taken up the discipline to determine a “cooperative competition” […]

    Players Only: Thinking About Who’s Who in Your Economic Sand Box

    In this second in our series to assist businesses and individuals on how to increase the predictability of their decisions, we will focus on players. Some nomenclatura first; as we will be using it, a “player” is neither a brand of cigarette from Nottingham, nor a womanizing/manizing clubber. As we use it here, a player […]

    Is a Do-Nothing Legislature Really that Bad? Game Theory, Law, Complexity, and Deadlock.

    by Martin Medeiros  There is great anxiety in America today regarding the lack of legislation being passed.   Impasse, deadlock and “do nothing” legislatures are reviled. We don’t have “deal makers”, we do have polarized extremes.  It is well said that partisanship is easy, deal making is difficult; criticism is simple, creation complex.  But how […]