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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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What Does Finance Want? from Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War

Kirshner, Jonathan - Princeton University Press

else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States that pursue appeasement when assertiveness--or even conflict …

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Introduction

Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press

greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth. The …

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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It

Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press

greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth. The …

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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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