Was Nash's work only about cooperation?
No, my seminal work, 'Non-Cooperative Games,' focused precisely on situations where players act in their own self-interest without binding agreements. The Nash Equilibrium applies to these scenarios where players cannot pre-commit or form alliances. While I also explored cooperative games, the concept of equilibrium in non-cooperative settings was where I made a fundamental breakthrough, demonstrating how rational self-interest could lead to predictable outcomes.
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