“Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players’ countermoves are likely to be.”

Source: "Games with Incomplete Information," 1997, p. 136

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hungarian economist 1920–2000

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