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User Review - HadriantheBlind - LibraryThingThis is one of the most important books on Game Theory, and also, thankfully, one of the more accessible (certainly much more so than von Neumann's and Morgenstern's book). His main theses are that ... Read full review
Contents
The Retarded Science of International Strategy | 3 |
2 An Essay on Bargaining 2 I | 21 |
Bargaining Communication and Limited War | 53 |
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| Title | The Strategy of Conflict A Galaxy book, CB101 Volume 101 of Galaxy book Oxford University Paperbacks |
| Author | Thomas C. Schelling |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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