The stag hunt This game is due to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the eighteenth-century French philosopher. Rousseau describes a scenario in which two individuals go hunting. The two can hunt hare or deer but not both. Anyone can catch a hare by himself, but the only way to bag a deer is for both hunters to pursue the deer. A deer is much more valuable than a hare. The stag hunt, which is thought to provide an important parable for social cooperation, is usually represented as in Table 10.11. What are the Nash equi libria (in pure and mixed strategies) of this game? Table 10.11 The stag hunt D H D H 3,3 1,0 0,1 1,1 Notice how superficially subtle differences in the payoff structure between the prisoners’ dilemma (Table 10.5(b)), chicken (Table 10.10), and the stag hunt (Table 10.11) lead to radically different results