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1. Introduction: five first lessons
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2. Putting yourselves into other people's shoes
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3. Iterative deletion and the median-voter theorem
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4. Best responses in soccer and business partnerships
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5. Nash equilibrium: bad fashion and bank runs
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6. Nash equilibrium: dating and Cournot
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7. Nash equilibrium: shopping, standing and voting on a line
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8. Nash equilibrium: location, segregation and randomization
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9. Mixed strategies in theory and tennis
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10. Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes
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11. Evolutionary stability: cooperation, mutation, and equilibrium
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12. Evolutionary stability: social convention, aggression, and cycles
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13. Sequential games: moral hazard, incentives, and hungry lions
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14. Backward induction: commitment, spies, and first-mover advantages
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15. Backward induction: chess, strategies, and credible threats
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16. Backward induction: reputation and duels
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17. Backward induction: ultimatums and bargaining
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18. Imperfect information: information sets and sub-game perfection
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19. Subgame perfect equilibrium: matchmaking and strategic investments
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20. Subgame perfect equilibrium: wars of attrition
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21. Repeated games: cooperation vs. the end game
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22. Repeated games: cheating, punishment, and outsourcing
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24. Asymmetric information: auctions and the winner's curse