Schelling's Game Theory

Schelling's Game Theory
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780199857210
ISBN-13 : 0199857210
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Schelling's Game Theory by : Robert V. Dodge

Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling taught a course in game theory and rational choice to advanced students and government officials for 45 years. In this book, Robert Dodge provides in language for a broad audience the concepts that Schelling taught. Armed with Schelling's understanding of game theory methods and his approaches to problems, the general reader can improve daily decision making.

The Strategy of Conflict

The Strategy of Conflict
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0674840313
ISBN-13 : 9780674840317
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Strategy of Conflict by : Thomas C. Schelling

Analyzes the nature of international disagreements and conflict resolution in terms of game theory and non-zero-sum games.

Choice and Consequence

Choice and Consequence
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9780674255975
ISBN-13 : 0674255976
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Choice and Consequence by : Thomas C. Schelling

Thomas Schelling is a political economist “conspicuous for wandering”—an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified. With an ingenious, often startling approach, Schelling brings new perspectives to problems ranging from drug abuse, abortion, and the value people put on their lives to organized crime, airplane hijacking, and automobile safety. One chapter is a clear and elegant exposition of game theory as a framework for analyzing social problems. Another plays with the hypothesis that our minds are not only our problem-solving equipment but also the organ in which much of our consumption takes place. What binds together the different subjects is the author’s belief in the possibility of simultaneously being humane and analytical, of dealing with both the momentous and the familiar. Choice and Consequence was written for the curious, the puzzled, the worried, and all those who appreciate intellectual adventure.

Micromotives and Macrobehavior

Micromotives and Macrobehavior
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780393069778
ISBN-13 : 039306977X
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Micromotives and Macrobehavior by : Thomas C. Schelling

Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." —official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these stories—how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group—is more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but-not-malicious preference to have neighbors of the same race eventually leads to completely segregated populations. The updated edition of this landmark book contains a new preface and the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 0674025679
ISBN-13 : 9780674025677
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays by : Thomas C. Schelling

All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel Prize winner, has been one of the four or five most important social scientists of the past fifty years, and this collection shows why.

Strategy and Choice

Strategy and Choice
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 0262240335
ISBN-13 : 9780262240338
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Strategy and Choice by : Richard Zeckhauser

These essays by contributors from disciplines ranging from economics to psychology present the most significant advances in strategic choice theory. In three parts the book addresses many-player, few-player and one-player situations.

Arms and Influence

Arms and Influence
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780300253481
ISBN-13 : 0300253486
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Arms and Influence by : Thomas C. Schelling

“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new introduction to the work shows how Schelling’s framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.

Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age

Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781000159127
ISBN-13 : 1000159124
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age by : Robert Ayson

An illuminating insight into the work of Thomas Schelling, one of the most influential strategic thinkers of the nuclear age. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the United States' early forays into Vietnam, he had become one of the most distinctive voices in Western strategy. This book shows how Schelling's thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions of the Cold War. In a demonstration that ideas can be just as significant as superpower politics, Robert Ayson traces the way this Harvard University professor built a unique intellectual framework using a mix of social-scientific reasoning, from economics to social theory and psychology. As such, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the intellectual history which underpins classical thinking on nuclear strategy and arms control - thinking which still has an enormous influence in the early twenty-first century.

Schelling's Game Theory

Schelling's Game Theory
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 305
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199857203
ISBN-13 : 0199857202
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Schelling's Game Theory by : Robert Dodge

Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling taught a course in game theory and rational choice to advanced students and government officials for 45 years. In this book, Robert Dodge provides in language for a broad audience the concepts that Schelling taught. Armed with Schelling's understanding of game theory methods and his approaches to problems, the general reader can improve daily decision making.

Game Theory and Politics

Game Theory and Politics
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780486143637
ISBN-13 : 0486143635
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Game Theory and Politics by : Steven J. Brams

DIVMany illuminating and instructive examples of the applications of game theoretic models to problems in political science appear in this volume, which requires minimal mathematical background. 1975 edition. 24 figures. /div