Consider the Prisoners' Dilemma Game,and Suppose One Player Confesses but the Other

question 59

Multiple Choice

Consider the Prisoners' Dilemma game,and suppose one player confesses but the other player does not confess.This outcome is

• A) a Nash equilibrium.
• B) Pareto optimal.
• C) a Pareto improvement over the outcome where both players confess.
• D) Pareto-inferior to the outcome where neither player confesses.

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