Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. This perspective has several characteristics: it is strategic in that it assumes that an important part of people's behavior is motivated by the thought of influencing other people's expectations; it views the mind as being separable into two or more parts (rational/irrational; present-minded/future-minded); it is motivated by policy concerns--smoking and other addictions, global warming, segregation, nuclear war; and while it accepts many of the basic assumptions of economics--that people are forward-looking, rational decision makers, that resources are scarce, and that incentives are important--it is open to modifying them when appropriate, and open to the findings and insights of other social science disciplines.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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-09-01
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674025677

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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.

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Thomas Schelling, 2005 Nobel laureate in economics, is interested in the strategies--rational, irrational, mean, kind--that people use to constrain their behavior. In these essays, he looks at addiction, temptation and resolve, as well as the use of threats, promises and bluffing. What's fascinating is that he applies his analysis of these strategies not only to individual behavior but also to critical issues like race relations, abortion and the behavior of nations--for example, international agreements to reduce greenhouse gases. Schelling is that rarest of creatures, an economist who writes clearly, takes on practical questions and thinks them through alongside his reader. He is delightful to read.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface 1. Strategies of Commitment Climate and Society 2. What Makes Greenhouse Sense? 3. The Economic Diplomacy of Geoengineering 4. Intergenerational and International Discounting Commitment as Self-Command 5. Self-Command in Practice, in Policy, and in a Theory of Rational Choice 6. Coping Rationally with Lapses from Rationality 7. Against Backsliding 8. Addictive Drugs: The Cigarette Experience Society and Life 9. Life, Liberty, or the Pursuit of Happiness 10. Should Numbers Determine Whom to Save? Economics and Social Policy 11. What Do Economists Know? 12. Why Does Economics Only Help with Easy Problems? 13. Prices as Regulatory Instruments Weapons and Warfare 14. Meteors, Mischief, and War 15. Research by Accident 16. Vietnam: Reflections and Lessons Social Dynamics 17. Social Mechanisms and Social Dynamics 18. Dynamic Models of Segregation Decisions of the Highest Order 19. The Legacy of Hiroshima Credits Index