Document Type
Lecture Draft
Publication Date
1992
Language
en-US
Abstract
Formally, a prisoner's dilemma is defined as follows: There are two participants symmetrically situated. For each player, her payoff if she refuses to cooperate with the other player is higher than her payoff would be if she cooperated, and this is true whether the other chooses to cooperate, or chooses to defect. If both cooperate, her payoff will be higher than if both defect.
Recommended Citation
Wendy J. Gordon, Defining the Prisoners' Dilemma (1992) (unpublished notes).
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