Game Theory on the High Seas: The 1904 Steerage Rate War, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and why I live in Ohio

In 1904, Amanda Helen Kallio, a 16-year-old from Finland, boarded the Saxonia, a Cunard Line steamship, sailing from Liverpool to Boston. She was traveling with her 11-year-old brother Isaac and planned to join her father, Isaac Kallio, in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Local history pages published by Case Western Reserve record that “most Finns came to … More Game Theory on the High Seas: The 1904 Steerage Rate War, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and why I live in Ohio