The two-person iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework. (Robert Axelrod)

The two-person iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework.

Robert Axelrod

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