About This Course: Game theory is a language for studying different kinds of strategic interactions. The players involved might be individuals or organizations or countries, or, further afield, animals or computers, or still other entities. In this course, we will draw a map of a variety of possible strategic interactions and we will think about how each of these possibilities can play out. By the end of the course, we will have learned to use the tools of game theory to understand the world in a new and useful way. If you want to know more, please go to https://minicourse.shanghai.nyu.edu/.