The Limits of Good Will — Ten Lectures on Strategic Interaction, Cooperation, and the Architecture of Decision

A ten-lecture course on the boundary conditions of common-sense remedies to social dilemmas — cheap talk, group size, graduated sanctions, polycentric governance, voting rules, repetition. Each lecture follows a five-section pattern: good-will intuition, what the classics actually say, what survives, the BDPD angle, mini-challenge. The course sits at the pedagogical altitude of the BDPD ecosystem (research papers below, card game above), where the empirical record of sixty years of social-dilemma research meets the questions that the new generation of AI agents forces us to ask. Designed for final-year undergraduates or master's students in social sciences or computer science with introductory game theory and statistics. A two-week intensive workshop covering all ten lectures runs to roughly thirty-two hours of student time (2–3 ECTS equivalent).