The Prisoner's Dilemma
Two people can each do better by betraying the other — and end up worse off than if neither of them had.
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American operations research
Merrill M. Flood
1908 – 1991
Mathematician at the RAND Corporation and later the University of Michigan. In January 1950, with Melvin Dresher, he ran the experiment that first exhibited the game now called the Prisoner's Dilemma, and he published the results with the players' round-by-round commentary in 1958.