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Pod Paper Scissors considers the glitches in our society due to the hidden games in everyday human interactions. Each week, hosts Ben Klemens and Liz Landau discuss a different topic relatin...
When your interaction with another person has an end date, like moving out of a shared apartment, do you still do the dishes? In this episod...
The real world is full of "repeated prisoners' dilemmas" in which we face the same situations over and over with the same people. In this ep...
Buying a house isn't as straightforward as offering a price. Contracts are malleable and buyer and seller are also negotiating who will bear...
We discuss a different kind of auction: the second price auction. It resolves many of the problems of the usual auctions, but the game is pl...
Sometimes winners feel like losers. In this episode we talk about auctions, including the concept of the winner's curse and Memorial Day sal...
Why does money have value? Why did every child want a Furby for one holiday season? On this episode, we explore how people's preferences are...
Journalist and author Elizabeth Becker is our guest as we contemplate how to use game theory to think about travel. <a href="https://podp...
In the Before Times (and in the Future Times), there were a lot of different kinds of travel experiences you could choose, and the ones you...
After a musical interlude about data loss, we invite Kevin Zollman back to discuss evolutionary game theory and delve into the origins of al...
We all send signals to other people to present ourselves in certain ways -- the clothes we wear, the drinks we order, the concert seats we b...
Parents are having a tough time in the COVID-19 era. But you can use the tools of game theory to negotiate with your kids and work toward pe...
If it rains on your picnic but you knew there was a 10% chance of showers, should you regret your decision to eat outside? Let's explore wha...
In this episode, we discuss the concept of a Nash Equilibrium by inventing dating apps that cater to people with different relationship goal...
In this episode, we take the activity of flirting apart using the tools of game theory. What are the incentives? Should you keep your intent...
What do we mean by "play" anyway? Historian Johan Huizinga wrote all about this in the 1930s. Let's take a look at his theory of play and ho...
Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time. Two solutions have been proposed to reduce emissions: taxes and a cap-and-tr...
Do you remember the idea of the "tragedy of the commons" from school? You probably heard it in the context of people taking too many resourc...
The Chicago school of economics, the carbon tax, and ticket takers who burn your entry fee right in front of you.
What do Ulysses, unions, and The Wire have in common?
Why did I have to worry about a toilet paper collapse during the coronavirus outbreak but not a bank collapse?