-
then the goods themselves are substitutes.
-
That's not the point I'm making here.
-
Strategic substitutes is a strategy,
-
is a statement about the nature of the game.
-
So strategic substitutes is telling me
-
that my strategy is a strategic substitute of your strategy
-
if the more I do at my strategy,
-
the less you want to do of yours and conversely,
-
the more you want to do of your strategy, the less I want to do of mine.
-
Now, let's come back to the question we started with,
-
which has to do with profits and so on in society.
-
We know that if these players play these games,