The prisoner’s dilemma in medical sponsorship – and why it just got worse

摘要

The prisoner’s dilemma was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher1 at the RAND Corporation, and given its famous name by Albert Tucker.2 It is a problem analyzed in game theory where a sub-optimal situation is maintained because each player is forced to play a dominant strategy. Two members of a criminal gang are held in separate rooms. The prosecutors do not have enough evidence to convict them unless one of them betrays the other.