James W. Friedman

Thinkers1936 to 2016Economist

Works

  • A Non-cooperative Equilibrium for Supergames, Review of Economic Studies 38(1), 1971

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An economist and game theorist who proved an early folk theorem for infinitely repeated games: any outcome better for every player than a one-shot Nash equilibrium can be sustained when players are patient enough and threaten to revert to that equilibrium after a deviation.

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