Game Theory and Politics | Public Lecture

Game theory is the 'science of interaction'. This talk will explain some insights of game theory and apply them to current politics.

Of course politicians play games. They offer cheap promises that they think they don't have to fulfil. Such as a "simple" in-out referendum on EU membership. That game plan went wrong. Game theory could have helped, with tools for thinking ahead and concepts of strategy. Game theory can also help explain the incentive problems of climate change and reasons for democratic deadlock. This talk will highlight some uses and mis-uses of game theory and decision theory with examples from politics.

Date: Thursday 20 February 2020
#LSEGameTheory

Speaker:
🔴 Professor Bernhard von Stengel

Chair:
🔴 Professor Jan van den Heuvel

[amberstiefel]

Randomizing the way you randomize is also a good tactic

[thomasraymer]

Glad to know that there is a nice way of utilizing it

[SaschaRobitzki]

"There was Wolfgang Schäuble, who was then a very popular politician in Greece"?

[psikeyhackr]

Wouldn't mandatory accounting in the schools be a good idea so everyone knows how to play the game and keep score?

[suindude]

Politics it's better to batter the good portion to reveal the winning ceremony as the revenue loss dilemma a detrimental economy in the role of the all time but rest assured as zero or negative sum at last.

[khalilfuller]

Lol, little do we know we use game theory in every day life

[АлександрРусаков-вс]

Clark Richard Martin Robert Brown Donna

[ИринаКим-ъч]

White Maria Jones Elizabeth Jackson John

[craigbenz]

His insights are useful, but not his politics.

[novel]

This is not attracting. It would be great if you would develop a model based on data from UK/EU politician's experiences... or other sources then the model could predict some real phenomenon. The politicians play the better model which needs to be converted into mathematical formulas. That can be a great invention.