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"Game theory is the study of the ways in which interacting choices of economic agents produce outcomes with respect to the preferences (or utilities) of those agents, where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents."

From:
Game Theory. First published Sat Jan 25, 1997; substantive revision Tue Dec 9, 2014 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Link: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/