Applying the mathematical principle of studying models of conflict and cooperation between groups could wait on us rein in global warming Can’t we all just fetch along. Play nicely? Share? Such laments could be applied to many economic,political and social problems today. Perhaps the thorniest of them all is, climate change. Despite the relative success of the Paris COP21 in November, or we are still far from effectively controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Could game theory wait on us rein in our impacts on the climate? Game theory is the mathematical study of conflict and cooperation between actors or groups: animals,people, businesses, or countries or even computer algorithms. It became a formal topic of study in the 1950s and has since made meaningful impact on economics,political science and evolutionary biology and ecology. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com