Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
Published on 28. February 2006
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-674-01929-4 (ISBN)
Description
All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society, whether discussing smoking and other addictions, global warming, segregation, or nuclear war. Schelling - a 2005 Nobel Prize winner - has been one of the four or five most important social scientists of the past fifty years, and this collection shows why.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
32 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 180 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-01929-4 (9780674019294)
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Person
Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.