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Author | : Michael Suk-Young Chwe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2014-03-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691162441 |
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How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago—over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.
Author | : Michael Suk-Young Chwe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0691158282 |
Download Rational Ritual Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Why do beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form "common knowledge." Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age." -- From the jacket.
Author | : Thomas C. Schelling |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674840317 |
Download The Strategy of Conflict Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Analyzes the nature of international disagreements and conflict resolution in terms of game theory and non-zero-sum games.
Author | : Michael Suk-Young Chwe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2014-03-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400851335 |
Download Jane Austen, Game Theorist Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago—over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.
Author | : Deborah Yaffe |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547757735 |
Download Among the Janeites Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With warmth and humor, lifelong Janeite Deborah Yaffe opens the door on the quirky, thriving subculture of Jane Austen fandom.
Author | : Michael Suk-Young Chwe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780691155760 |
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Game theory is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. This book suggests that Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago. This book shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, argued that jointly strategizing with a partner is the surest foundation for intimacy, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. With a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers. Although game theory's mathematical development began in the Cold War 1950s, Chwe finds that game theory has earlier subversive historical roots in Austen's novels and in "folk game theory" traditions, including African American folktales. Chwe makes the case that these literary forebears are game theory's true scientific predecessors. He considers how Austen in particular analyzed cluelessness, the conspicuous absence of strategic thinking, and how her sharp observations apply to a variety of situations, including U.S. military blunders in Iraq and Vietnam.
Author | : Alasdair MacIntyre |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1623569818 |
Download After Virtue Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Author | : Anthony Simon Laden |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199606196 |
Download Reasoning Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Anthony Simon Laden explores the kind of reasoning we engage in when we live together: when we are responsive to others and neither commanding nor deferring to them. He argues for a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning, in which reasoning is a species of conversation—social, ongoing, and governed by a set of characteristic norms.
Author | : Brian Sutton-Smith |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0674044185 |
Download The Ambiguity of Play Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"--The ancient discourses of fate, power, communal identity, and frivolity and the modern discourses of progress, the imaginary, and the self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory
Author | : Paula Byrne |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062199064 |
Download The Real Jane Austen Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“A vivacious portrait. . . . Byrne’s Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she’s often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility—and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers.” — Publishers Weekly In The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist. Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen’s novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things – a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature – that held significance in Austen’s personal and creative life. Byrne transports us to different worlds, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, and to different events, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting. In this ground-breaking biography, Austen is set on a wider stage than ever before, revealing a well-traveled and politically aware writer – important aspects of her artistic development that have long been overlooked. The Real Jane Austen is a fresh, compelling, and surprising biography of the author of some of our most enduring classic books – from Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, Emma to Persuasion – and a vivid evocation of the world that shaped her.