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Author: Len Fisher

📘 Rock, paper, scissors : game theory in everyday life by Len Fisher

The IgNobel Prize-winning author of How to Dunk a Doughnut draws on the science of game theory to explain how human beings cooperate in everyday life.

First publish date: 2008

Authors: Len Fisher

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