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The 19 pages that link to Prisoner's dilemma, each with the reason it gives.

• Game theoryBroader topic: It exposes the tension between private incentives and collective benefit.

• Nash equilibriumBroader topic: Defection by both players is an equilibrium, despite being jointly worse than cooperation.

• Collective action problemBroader topic: It is a canonical model of individually advantageous defection undermining joint benefit.

• Evolutionary game theoryBroader topic: Its cooperative and selfish strategies expose the central problem of cooperation.

• Ethical egoismBroader topic: It tests whether pursuing individual interest reliably produces good outcomes for the people involved.

• Social dilemmaBroader topic: It isolates the conflict between individual advantage and collective benefit in a two-person model.

• Dominant strategyBroader topic: Defection is dominant for each prisoner, despite the jointly better cooperative outcome.

• Normal-form gameBroader topic: Its payoff matrix isolates the conflict between private incentives and collective benefit.

• Anatol RapoportBroader topic: Rapoport used this model to examine how cooperation can emerge despite incentives to defect.

• Game (game theory)Broader topic: It shows how private incentives can undermine mutually beneficial cooperation.