The Strategy of Conflict'In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling's work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrence. In this field, the author's analysis goes beyond what has been done by earlier writers. It is the best, most incisive, and most stimulating book on the subject.' |
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Page 143
... original Row- player a payoff of 5 as a by - product . ( If the third party's rewards had to be financed by Row , whose own payoffs were correspond- ingly reduced , it would still be worth his while to make an ir- revocable assignment ...
... original Row- player a payoff of 5 as a by - product . ( If the third party's rewards had to be financed by Row , whose own payoffs were correspond- ingly reduced , it would still be worth his while to make an ir- revocable assignment ...
Page 154
... original game ? And , if so , how does it show up in the enlarged matrix ? The original game clearly has a solution for rational players . ( A ) If Row is committed to row i , with a penalty of 5 for breaking his com- mitment , Column ...
... original game ? And , if so , how does it show up in the enlarged matrix ? The original game clearly has a solution for rational players . ( A ) If Row is committed to row i , with a penalty of 5 for breaking his com- mitment , Column ...
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... original matrix , using the two parameters representing the proba- bility of " irrational " attack . The upper left cell in the matrix stays as it was . The lower right cell has its pay - offs recomputed , as a weighted average of the ...
... original matrix , using the two parameters representing the proba- bility of " irrational " attack . The upper left cell in the matrix stays as it was . The lower right cell has its pay - offs recomputed , as a weighted average of the ...
Contents
The Retarded Science of International Strategy | 3 |
An Essay on Bargaining | 21 |
Bargaining Communication and Limited War | 53 |
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