Thinking Strategically
The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Published on 17. April 1993
416 pages
978-0-393-06979-2 (ISBN)
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The international bestseller—don't compete without it!
A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.More details
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Avinash K. Dixit | Barry J. Nalebuff
Thinking Strategically
The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
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04/1993
WW Norton & Co
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Avinash K. Dixit is Emeritus John J.F. Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he offered his popular freshman course in game theory. He is among the world's leading economists, having made fundamental contributions in several major fields as well as in game theory. He is the author of many books, including Dixit/Nalebuff: Thinking Strategically (Norton, 1991), Dixit/Pindyck: Investment Under Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 1994), and Dixit/Nalebuff: The Art of Strategy (Norton, 2009).
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- About the authors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: What Is Strategic Behavior?
- PART I
- 1 Ten Tales of Strategy
- 2 Anticipating Your Rival's Response
- 3 Seeing through Your Rival's Strategy
- Epilogue to Part I
- PART II
- 4 Resolving the Prisoner's Dilemma
- 5 Strategic Moves
- 6 Credible Commitments
- 7 Unpredictability
- Epilogue to Part II
- PART III
- 8 Brinkmanship
- 9 Cooperation and Coordination
- 10 The Strategy of Voting
- 11 Bargaining
- 12 Incentives
- 13 Case Studies
- Notes
