- Preface
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- 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
Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
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$32.00 • £27.95 • €29.95
ISBN 9780674025677
Publication Date: 09/30/2007
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