To see Game Theory from a 'cooperation' point of view, check out the landmark book, <i>The Evolution of Cooperation</i>[1] by Robert Axelrod.<p>Axelrod's work was also summarized in <i>The Selfish Gene</i>. (And more recently, in <i>Behave</i>, by Sapolsky.)<p>From the abstract:<p><i>"We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival."</i><p>[1] <a href="https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-axelrod/the-evolution-of-cooperation/9780465005642/" rel="nofollow">https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-axelrod/the-evoluti...</a>