game theory
Good science is sometimes trumped by the craving for a “big splash.”
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Negotiation looks on the outside to be extremely difficult. But if you’re confident enough to have some patience from the outset, it’s as simple as telling the other person to “take it or leave it.”
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Sometimes the best strategy is to think completely outside the box. Or not have a strategy at all.
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Want to tax corporations without scaring them off, outsmart a calculating kid, or get rid of the world’s nuclear warheads? Think like a game theorist.
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In 1944, the economist, physicist, mathematician and computer scientist John von Neumann published a book that became a sensation, at least among mathematicians – Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. […]
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,” Albert Einstein said. So go back to school, Ivy League style.
It’s time to get real about key ideas that run our lives, which have been taking laughable liberties with human nature – and with the logic of livable liberty.
A new study reveals that people naturally fall into 4 different personality types while making decisions: Optimist, Pessimist, Trusting, or Envious.