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The Strategy of Conflict
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The Strategy of Conflict

With a New Preface by the Author

by Thomas C. Schelling

Recommended by Steven Pinker and Kaushik Basu

Recommended by Steven Pinker and Kaushik Basu

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Politics.

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactorythe situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities bet...

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Politics.

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Steven Pinker

One of my most treasured books, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict, signed by Schelling in November ‘99.
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