On the Impossibility of Predicting the Behavior of Rational Agents.

A foundational assumption in economics is that people are rational--they choose optimal plans of action given their predictions about future states of the world. In games of strategy this means that each players' strategy should be optimal given his or her prediction of the opponents' stra...

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Main Authors: Foster, D, Young, H
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (Johns Hopkins University) 1999