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Catch-22 and King-of-the-Mountain Games : Cycling, Frustration, and Power

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Brams, Steven J.
Jones, Christopher B.

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In his classic novel, Catch-22 (1961), Joseph Heller describes a thoroughly frustrating situation faced by a combat pilot in WWII. This is generalized to a "generic" 2 x 2 strict ordinal game, in which whatever strategy the column player chooses, the best response of the row player inflicts on the column plaher a worst of next-worst outcome, and possibly vice versa.

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Paper provided by C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University in its series Working Papers with number 97-23.

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C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games

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  1. Brams, Steven J. & Togman, Jeffrey M., 1996. "The Dynamics of the Northern Ireland Condition," Working Papers 96-03, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University. [Downloadable!]
  2. Brams, S.J., 1995. "Game Theory and Emotions," Working Papers 95-23, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University. [Downloadable!]
  3. Mailath, George J & Samuelson, Larry & Swinkels, Jeroen M, 1993. "Extensive Form Reasoning in Normal Form Games," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 61(2), pages 273-302, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Mailath George J. & Samuelson Larry & Swinkels Jeroen M., 1994. "Normal Form Structures in Extensive Form Games," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 64(2), pages 325-371, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Brams, S.J., 1998. "To Mobilize of Not to Mobilize: Catch 22s in International Crises," Working Papers 98-11, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University. [Downloadable!]
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