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Note: this article contains TV show plot spoilers up to the start of series five of Game of Thrones. It also features detail from the books (though no plot spoilers).
It's that time of year when everyone and their dog takes a view on the most important political question of our times: who will sit the Iron Throne of Westeros?
Recently, journalist Paul Mason used Marxism to explain the game, and others have looked at George R. R. Martin's work through all kinds of lenses. But funnily enough, given the title of the series, none of them uses game theory.
That's a bit weird as right now, in a fictitious continent we'll call Europe, a former game theory professor is running Greece's negotiations over its debt. Given the parallels with the Iron Throne's negotiation with the Iron Bank of Braavos (the IMF of Essos) and that bank's willingness to commit to regime change as an enforcement strategy, you would have thought someone would link the two together. Read more...
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