Micromotives and macrobehavior
Thomas C. Schelling (Author), W.W. Norton & Company (Publisher, Distributor)
"Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. "Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." —official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize. Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the stories it tells feel just as fresh today. And the subject of these stories—how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group—is more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but-not-malicious preference to have neighbors of the same race eventually leads to completely segregated populations. The updated edition of this landmark book contains a new preface and the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech"--Publisher's description
eBook, English, 2006
[New edition] with a new preface and the Nobel Lecture View all formats and editions
Norton, New York, 2006
1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations
9780393069778, 039306977X
1085907148
"Release date: October 17, 2006."
"New edition"--Page 3
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2019