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In their recent work Thomas S. Schelling (2007, 2010), reiterating original arguments about game theory and its … applications to social sciences. In particular, game theory helps to explore situations in which agents make decisions … interdependent (strategic communication). Schelling's originality is to extend economic theory to social sciences. When a player can …
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This paper proposes a central idea in diffusion research is that influential –a minority of individuals who influence an exceptional number of their peers- are important to formation of public opinion. Here we examine this idea, which we call the “influential hypothesis”, using the...
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This article exposes key aspects for the theoretical analysis of the political reality in Colombia in moments of severe derived social uncertainty of the conflict and the fork of serious dilemmas on the institutional order that comes from political campaigns influenced decisively by the...
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In their recent work Thomas S. Schelling (2007, 2010), reiterating original arguments about game theory and its … applications to social sciences. In particular, game theory helps to explore situations in which agents make decisions … interdependent (strategic communication). Schelling's originality is to extend economic theory to social sciences. When a player can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541485
We use two theoretical categories of the work of Robert Nozick (1974), (a) protection agencies and (b) minimal state, to illustrate by analogy to the CMSP, the dilemmas arising from the use of private military in regions with civil wars and conflicts irregular. We see that the relations...
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In this paper I examine the paradoxical role of language in conflict situations. Support the war and negotiation belong to a game of "speech acts" structured by a double metonymic and metaphorical relationship. That metaphorical relationship between both conceptualizes negotiation as a condensed...
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that attempts to carry out social reforms will be zero or limited in scope; (3) the theory of risk, ensuring that the …
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In their recent work Thomas S. Schelling (2007, 2010), reiterating original arguments about game theory and its … applications to social sciences. In particular, game theory helps to explore situations in which agents make decisions … interdependent (strategic communication). Schelling's originality is to extend economic theory to social sciences. When a player can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111447