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Prisoner's Dilemma (William Poundstone)

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William Poundstone Prisoners Dilemma is a work of popular science and intellectual history that connects the biography of John von Neumann with the rise of game theory and the strategic anxieties of the nuclear age. The book explains how abstract mathematical ideas about conflict, choice, and rational behavior moved from academic circles into military planning, economics, and public policy. Its central organizing image is the prisoners dilemma, a simple but unsettling game in which individually rational choices can produce a collectively worse outcome. Poundstone uses this problem to examine why cooperation can fail even when all parties would benefit from it. The book is not a technical textbook, although it introduces concepts such as zero-sum games, minimax reasoning, and non-zero-sum interaction. Its purpose is historical and explanatory: to show how a mathematical theory became entangled with Cold War fears, nuclear deterrence, and broader questions about human rationality.