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Quotes from War and peace — Robert Aumann

born 1930 Israel

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A person’s behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information.

War and peace (2005)

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

War and peace (2005)

Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium.

War and peace (2005)

The players in a game are said to be in strategic equilibrium (or simply equilibrium) when their play is mutually optimal: when the actions and plans of each player are rational in the given strategic environment – i.e., when each knows the actions and plans of the others.

War and peace (2005)

The theory of repeated games is able to account for phenomena such as altruism, cooperation, trust, loyalty, revenge, threats (self-destructive or otherwise) – phenomena that may at ﬁrst seem irrational – in terms of the “selﬁsh” utility-maximizing paradigm of game theory and neoclassical economics.

War and peace (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Aumann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.