Jane Austen, Game Theorist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jane Austen, Game Theorist write by Michael Suk-Young Chwe. This book was released on 2014-03-23. Jane Austen, Game Theorist available 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.
Rational Ritual
Rational Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rational Ritual write by Michael Suk-Young Chwe. This book was released on 2013-04-28. Rational Ritual available 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.
The Strategy of Conflict
The Strategy of Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Strategy of Conflict write by Thomas C. Schelling. This book was released on 1980. The Strategy of Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes the nature of international disagreements and conflict resolution in terms of game theory and non-zero-sum games.
Among the Janeites
Among the Janeites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Among the Janeites write by Deborah Yaffe. This book was released on 2013. Among the Janeites available 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.
After Virtue
After Virtue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Virtue write by Alasdair MacIntyre. This book was released on 2013-10-21. After Virtue available 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.
