May 28, 2007

Prisoner's dilemma and the Indianness

I am reading the book "Games Indian Play" by V. Raghunathan for which NRN had given the foreword. The book talks about the behavioural nature of the Indian using the Game theory and behavioural science. As per the author, Indians are intelligent, rational as an Individual; however as a group we fail to advance. He explains this behaviour with the analogy of the Prisoner's dilemma which was nice to read. The author never had any hesitate to call a spade a spade. He has written his view forthrightly. Probably I may write a review here once I finish the book.

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