Even today William Poundstone's "Prisoner's Dilemma" commands $3.95 used from Amazon Marketplace, while some other great books like "On Call In Hell" by Cdr./MD Jadick go for a penny.
Game Theory gets messy with more than two players. Googling (( TRUEL )) finds even a Wikipedia article on the subtleties of a three-person-duel. Someday, inevitably, at least a dirty bomb, maybe a primitive Hiroshima-class terrorist nuke is going to go off, probably in a harbor-city because primitive nukes won't fit in carry-on baggage. WHODUNNIT, who to retaliate against ?
Consider the difficulties of retaliation against folks in what one might think are open-and-shut cases.
(( Brian Nichols 1.8 million )) reveals the legal bills to retaliate against the guy who took an officer's gun while IN CUSTODY.
(( Yale Raymond Clark Annie Le Defense Budget )) will be an interesting story. What with the card-key-swiping and DNA evidence, one might think a defense impossible. In other words "The cost of prosecuting open-and-shut cases" I think is a good benchmark of a legal system.
Yet the cost of retaliating instinctively are also high. Even the old book "Blackhawk Down" is full of indiscriminate-return-fire incidents, that was long before Pat Tillman.

For sure, we will look back nostalgically at the 2-player-Cold-War days.

The Google query (( CHAKALES WHITFIELD CNN SEP 12 )) gets you to the transcript of a CNN video which at this very moment is about 1/5 from the top of their scrollbar-of-videos. With her 3.0 GPA, along with many others she plans to save tons of money by accepting the full in-state-scholarship AS LONG AS she maintains the 3.0 GPA. Game-theory-wise just a little ways down the road the state would be able to save tons of money just by say reforming to cure the (predicted) grade-inflation-crisis. CNN will probably follow her pretty face into the future, we'll see....

Your remarks indicate you know more than I do on such issues - I wonder if you tend to assign any credibility to J.C. Sanford's musings in his book "Genetic Entropy". Among ID books this one is at least to be praised for its conciseness / lack-of-rambling. Even the most devout blind-watchmaker type must consider the back-of-the-envelope remarks on "How much selection pressure would be needed" to counteract entropy, much less select for the elusive benign mutation. Especially considering the dubious state of selection in Western Civilization. Case-in-point, I've never had the athletic requirements for serious rock-climbing although I enjoy it - it seems that the late "John Bachar" ( nice video on YouTube ) managed to father only one child over his lifetime, surely a quality stud by my metric, anyway.

I'm so pleased - with the build 7100 the Intellipoint-Magnifier now seems perfect, perhaps even better than with XP.