Strategies of commitment and other essays / Thomas C. Schelling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social choice.

Social problems.

Policy sciences.

Choice (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2006]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674260757

0674260759

OCLC:

1246579086