According to this video by Tim Hartford, this includes: Designing wargames for Kissinger et al., helping Kubrick with Dr Strangelove, suggesting the red telephone be installed between USA and Soviet Union and trying but failing to dissuade a bombing campaign in Vietnam. On the intellectual plane (as well as game theory), decades ahead of his time in thinking about behavioral economics (because he was trying to give up smoking), doing the first agent-based model (of discrimination) and thinking about climate change. Near-fatal flaw for Nobel Committee: Not enough math.
Great for teaching. Part on mutually assured destruction vs common interest games could easily be folded into discussion of Nash vs subgame perfect equilibrium and hence credibility.
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February 5, 2013 at 11:39 am
afinetheorem
Not to mention that his response to the Nash bargaining paper inspired the later literature on credible threats.
March 7, 2013 at 4:39 am
Chris
The Beliefs of the Welfare Staters and the Greens are basically dlitemricalay opposed.So are the beliefs of organized labor and greens. And open-borders’ and greens. It’s nuttiness on stilts.Those hardest hit are the poorest of the poor who depend upon cheap, bountiful energy to both sustain their lives and facilitate their upward mobility. For this reason, the green movement is not just wrong, but evil.It boils down to a hatred of humanity. And the wracking guilt of being a member. Deep down they see themselves as the ones who are making the tough decisions. To hell with the poor; each one that dies young and childless represents one small step in the right direction. They know that sentiment is unspeakable, and inherently inhumane. But they’ve created their own ends-justifies-the-means reality.
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