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Has this really gone to game theory? Really?
Game theory is still, somehow, fashionable, even though it has never worked in practise and almost all of its original proponents now accept its divorce from reality.
Rational actors acting exclusively in their own self-interest... Have never been part of society, will never be part of general society - aside from psychopaths and economists. Human beings, as social animals, will _always_ find ways to cooperate. Game theory is based on strict non-cooperation, hence game theory cannot be applied to anything but simplified situations (like the cold war standoff, to a degree) and absolutely cannot be applied to society.
Even Nash (mad as he is and always was) says this himself.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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