is John Nash's colleague and friend. He has taught economics courses on games of strategy, and written books on the subject for students and for the general audience. Here Prof. Dixit explains ...

(Representative AI image by Denny) Nash’s thesis revolves around the idea of non-cooperative games, where players make decisions independently without binding agreements or external enforcement ...

The economics committee first encountered John Nash's name in the mid-1980s. At that point game theory, the area where Nash did his Nobel-winning work, was as hot as any in the field of economics.

John Nash, like so many of the best scientific minds of the late 1940s and 1950s, was drawn into a military think tank based in Santa Monica, California -- the RAND Corporation. Although Nash ...

John Nash’s notion of equilibrium is ubiquitous in economic theory, but a new study shows that it is often impossible to reach efficiently. The mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad ...