0 a mathematical theory about how decisions are made in situations where one person's decision affects another, that is used in many fields such as economics, psychology, and biology
1 an economic theory that tries to calculate what choices people will make, when those choices depend on the choices of others:
Some of the most interesting ideas are coming from game theory, the field of mathematics that studies strategic behaviour in competitive situations.
Indeed, the idea of relationship is fundamental to game theory.
Besides, one needs game theory to explain the ethical and moral rules themselves.
You asked about the sociology of game theorists, rather than game theory.
People in game theory will understand each other less in the future.
Something having to do with game theory, with economics, with philosophy.
But there is a simple answer: economists use game theory to design and interpret experiments.
The basic concepts of game theory can be mapped to the elements of the theory of natural selection as follows.
Part of the problem is that game theory has used lots of applied math and little empirical observation.
