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Title

Strategy and choice / edited by Richard J. Zeckhauser.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1991.

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Additional Authors

• Raiffa, Howard.
• Zeckhauser, Richard

Description

viii, 402 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

These essays by contributors from disciplines ranging from economics to psychology present the most significant advances in strategic choice theory. In three parts the book addresses many-player, few-player and one-player situations.

Subject

• Choice (Psychology)
• Choice Behavior
• Decision Making
• Decision making
• HKS Faculty
• MBG, Markets, Business, and Government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The strategy of choice / Richard J. Zeckhauser -- Positional externalities / Robert H. Frank -- Envy in social life / Jon Elster -- Free riding versus cooperation / Howard Margolis -- Systems effects / Robert Jervis -- Autocracy, democracy, and prosperity / Mancur Olson -- Making strategies credible / Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff -- Trusting persons, trusting institutions / Russell Hardin -- Gifts and bribes / Robert Klitgaard -- The strategic use of contracts with third parties / Jerry R. Green -- Thomas Schelling and the analysis of strategic behavior / Vincent P. Crawford -- Endowment and contrast in judgments of well-being / Amos Tversky and Dale Griffin -- Preferences or principles : alternative guidelines for choice / Dražen Prelec and R.J. Herrnstein.
• Coping with common errors in rational decision making / Howard Raiffa -- Strategic and ethical issues in the valuation of life / W. Kip Viscusi.

ISBN

0262240335 :

LCCN

^^^91015837^

OCLC

23694110

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library