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Game Theory Bootcamp
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(13 ratings)
110 students

Game Theory Bootcamp

Become an Expert in Strategy and Negotiation! Master Nash Equilibrium, Payoff Analysis, Induction, and More!
Created byLearn With Arjun
Last updated 12/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Model real-world strategic situations (in politics, business, economics, and more) as games with players, strategies, and payoffs
  • Solve normal-form games using strict dominance, iterated elimination, and best responses
  • Find and interpret Nash equilibria in pure strategies
  • Compute mixed-strategy Nash equilibria using probability and payoff indifference conditions
  • Analyse sequential games with game trees, backward induction, and subgame perfect equilibrium
  • Evaluate credibility in strategic interactions: threats, commitments, and incentives
  • Compare outcomes across games with multiple equilibria and identify coordination versus conflict situations
  • Use payoff analysis to predict behavior and outcomes under different incentive structures

Course content

2 sections • 7 lectures • 33m total length

  • Prisoner's dilemma and strict dominance6:48
  • The meaning of the numbers and the role of game theory3:17
  • Application of the prisoner's dilemma5:34
  • Deadlock5:03
  • Strict dominance in asymmetric games2:37

Requirements

  • You don't need a PhD in mathematics - basic high school arithmetic will suffice
  • An analytical and curious mind

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Ready to master strategy and negotiation? You’ve come to the right place.

Game theory is the cheat code for making decisions and understanding how people behave when incentives collide.

It shows up everywhere because most real-world problems involve strategy, from elections and coalition deals to trade wars, regulation, auctions, and pricing, plus everyday scenarios like salary negotiations and even dating. Game theory gives you the tools to analyse these situations cleanly, instead of just guessing.

The problem: most resources either drown you in maths and formulas with no intuition, or stay so “conceptual” you can’t solve anything.

That's the purpose of this course: to be the best resource online for learning game theory the practical way, with clear explanations and lots of examples, so you actually develop the fundamental knowledge needed to analyse high-stakes situations.


By the end of this course (more lectures to be added), you'll be able to:

  • Think strategically in competitive and cooperative situations

  • Solve games using dominance, best responses, and Nash equilibrium

  • Analyse uncertainty using mixed strategies and probability

  • Solve sequential games using game trees and induction

  • Evaluate credibility in strategic moves: threats, commitments, and incentives

  • Apply game theory to real problems in politics, economics, and business


If you want to get good at strategy and negotiation without drowning in math-for-the-sake-of-math, this course is for you. All you need is basic high school arithmetic.


Who this course is for:

  • Individuals who want to improve their skills in decision making and negotiation - whether that's for politics, economics, business, or even everyday scenarios like dating

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