Strategy of Conflict Paperback by Thomas C. Schelling

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1981-05-19)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 328 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674840317
• Item Weight: 345.87 grams
• Dimensions: 20.93 x 14.0 x 2.31 cm

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory—the 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 between, for instance, maneuvering in limited war and in a traffic jam; deterring the Russians and one’s own children; the modern strategy of terror and the ancient institution of hostages.

About the Author

Thomas C. Schelling was Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He was co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.