Game Theorists

I have been thinking about cooperation recently, and my sense that we are getting to the point where science and mathematics can teach us some things about mutual aid that we may have turned deaf ears to when the great religious leaders spoke them, and that sent me back to Hume and Rousseau, two (as these quotes show) early game theorists..

You'll find both quotes in Howard Rheingold's book, Smartmobs, and I suspect his recent work Towards a Literacy of Cooperation at Stanford is pioneering this frontier...