Catch-22 and King-of-the-Mountain Games: Cycling, Frustration, and Power

Steven J. Brams and Christopher B. Jones

Working Papers from C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University

Abstract: In his classic novel, Catch-22 (1961), Joseph Heller describes a thoroughly frustrating situation faced by a combat pilot in WWII. This is generalized to a "generic" 2 x 2 strict ordinal game, in which whatever strategy the column player chooses, the best response of the row player inflicts on the column plaher a worst of next-worst outcome, and possibly vice versa.

Keywords: ECONOMETRICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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