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SCHELLING, THOMAS CROMBIE. b.1921. The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
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SCHELLING, THOMAS CROMBIE. b.1921.
The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
Original yellow-green cloth, spine stamped in black, dust jacket. Stray stain to fore-edge and to upper cover, jacket with spine somewhat sunned, light edgewear, excellent overall.
Provenance: Jeremy Norman.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST SCHELLING to fellow economist Lord Thomas Balogh and with an additional Autograph Note Signed by Schelling to Lord Balogh laid in. Schelling's most famous book, a study of bargaining and strategic behavior that pioneered the application of game theory to economics, business, warfare and other real-world situations. The Strategy of Conflict is considered one of the hundred books most influential in the West in the postwar era. The book introduced the concept of the focal point, defined as a point– physical or mental– that people will tend to converge on in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special, or relevant to them. In 2005 Schelling was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in this field.
Original yellow-green cloth, spine stamped in black, dust jacket. Stray stain to fore-edge and to upper cover, jacket with spine somewhat sunned, light edgewear, excellent overall.
Provenance: Jeremy Norman.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST SCHELLING to fellow economist Lord Thomas Balogh and with an additional Autograph Note Signed by Schelling to Lord Balogh laid in. Schelling's most famous book, a study of bargaining and strategic behavior that pioneered the application of game theory to economics, business, warfare and other real-world situations. The Strategy of Conflict is considered one of the hundred books most influential in the West in the postwar era. The book introduced the concept of the focal point, defined as a point– physical or mental– that people will tend to converge on in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special, or relevant to them. In 2005 Schelling was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in this field.

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