Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist.

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First edition, first printing. 8vo. xi, [5], 363, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket (contents clean and fresh; jacket slightly edge worn with minor chipping to tips of spine panel and corners, small area of surface wear to front panel from clumsy removal of old price sticker, notwithstanding a very good copy). Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Press. The 'third classic book' by the Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas C. Schelling, focusing 'on conflicts within individuals. Economics has traditionally treated the individual as a unified and internally consistent utility maximizer. Yet difficulties with reconciling conflicting impulses are central to the human experience. The problem of addiction, Schelling suggests, entails a failure to manage inner conflicts. It arises from inadequate self-control. The key insight of Choice and Consequence is that problems of self-control are commonly dampened, if not resolved fully, through tricks of the mind, social institutions, and public policies' (New Palgrave). Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Science for 'having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis'.

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Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist.

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1984

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Hardcover

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