Choice and Consequence

Thomas C. Schelling

  • Thomas C. Schelling is Co-Recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics

1. Economic Reasoning and the Ethics of Policy

2. Command and Control

3. The Intimate Contest for Self-Command

4. Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command

5. The Life You Save May Be Your Own

6. Strategic Relationships in Dying

7. Economics and Criminal Enterprise

8. What Is the Business of Organized Crime?

9. Strategic Analysis and Social Problems

10. What Is Game Theory?

11. A Framework for the Evaluation of Arms Proposals

12. The Strategy of Inflicting Costs

13. Who Will Have the Bomb?

14. Thinking about Nuclear Terrorism

15. The Mind as a Consuming Organ

Notes

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Index

  • Cover: Choice and Consequence
  • A photo of the author

photo: University of Maryland

Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.