Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Thomas C. Schelling

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$30.50 • £24.95 • €27.50

ISBN 9780674025677

Publication Date: 09/30/2007

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360 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

32 line illustrations

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Preface
- 1. Strategies of Commitment
Climate and Society
- 2. What Makes Greenhouse Sense?
- 3. The Economic Diplomacy of Geoengineering
- 4. Intergenerational and International Discounting
Commitment as Self-Command
- 5. Self-Command in Practice, in Policy, and in a Theory of Rational Choice
- 6. Coping Rationally with Lapses from Rationality
- 7. Against Backsliding
- 8. Addictive Drugs: The Cigarette Experience
Society and Life
- 9. Life, Liberty, or the Pursuit of Happiness
- 10. Should Numbers Determine Whom to Save?
Economics and Social Policy
- 11. What Do Economists Know?
- 12. Why Does Economics Only Help with Easy Problems?
- 13. Prices as Regulatory Instruments
Weapons and Warfare
- 14. Meteors, Mischief, and War
- 15. Research by Accident
- 16. Vietnam: Reflections and Lessons
Social Dynamics
- 17. Social Mechanisms and Social Dynamics
- 18. Dynamic Models of Segregation
Decisions of the Highest Order
- 19. The Legacy of Hiroshima
Credits
Index

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