Is Nick Clegg involved in a 3 way game of the prisoners dilemma?

[jake-the-peg]

http://en.wikipedia.o.../Prisoner%27s_dilemma

Is this an accurate analogy?

[woofgang]

almost the same except this is the real world and what he cannot know is how much each side knows about his negotiations with the other side (the assumption in the dilemma is that neither prisoner knows anything except what he is told by the police.)
and the great british public and how they will react. The lib dems keep saying that the british wanted a hung parliament and that's why they voted the way they did but I don't think that is at all true. As i said in another thread he 's got his own party on at him, if he annoys labour and the conservatives too much and stays in politics he's goona end up with a load of biiiig enemies AND the public aren't seeming to like much what he is doing either.
Reminds me of the old saying be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

[jednbutter]

Three in a bed,,Cameron Clegg and Cable, sounds ugly.

[rov1200]

It is interesting to compare Game theory with Poker. Game theory under Nash is a non-zero sum game when either all or none benefit. You could say Brown was the loser and Clegg a winner therefore could be described as poker play. If you compared Clegg with Cameron then both won so a case of Game theory.

///Nash focussed on 'non-zero sum' games. These occur when all sides can win or lose, unlike traditional 'zero-sum' games like poker, where one person's victory simultaneously heralds the opponent's defeat. 'Nash equilibrium' occurs when competing strategies achieve a win-win compromise. All participants realise that the end result might not be in their best individual interest, but collectively it suits all. Applied to the real world, many economic transactions fall into the 'non-zero sum' category///

[rov1200]

As a footnote Nash was starred in the film 'The Beautiful Mind'. He won a nobel prize for postulating the game theory which is widely used in economics today.