Steven J. Brams, Game Theory and the Humanities
According to some commentators and critics, all literary plot lines are variations on the single theme of someone wanting something and someone else trying to prevent them from getting it. Similarly, one might see everyday life as a continual sequence of transactions, in which two (or more) parties enter into a negotiation to exchange something for something else, the negotiation itself being a form of conflict resolution. In 1944 John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their magiste.