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The Hi-Lo Paradox, from Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory

Bacharach, Michael - Princeton University Press

Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet …, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation …--most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary features of "focal points" to solve coordination problems, and that …

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Analytic Narratives

Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; … - Princeton University Press

Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important...

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Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; Jean-Laurent - Princeton University Press

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Introduction to John von Neuman and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

Kuhn, Harold W. - Princeton University Press

This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior....

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Introduction to The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters

Coyle, Diane - Princeton University Press

To many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" is as fitting now as it was 150 years ago. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. Building on the popularity of books such as...

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Introduction to The Essential John Nash

Nasar, Sylvia - Princeton University Press

When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. The Essential John Nash reveals his work--in...

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Autobiography, from The Essential John Nash

John F. Nash, Jr. - Princeton University Press

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Preface to The Essential John Nash

Kuhn, Harold W. - Princeton University Press

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Press Release by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from The Essential John Nash

Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of - Princeton University Press

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Electing a Single Winner: Approval Voting in Practice, from Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures

Brams, Steven J. - Princeton University Press

Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of contested goods. In Mathematics and Democracy, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the use of...

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