Collective Action
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Book Overview
Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives. Relying heavily on theoretical... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080182818X
ISBN13:9780801828188
Release Date:June 1982
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.22 lbs.
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A challenging book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
The personality and action of groups as defined by a games interaction is what makes this book special. In most cases the arguments are hard and the text is dense, but the idea that large groups of people use strategy as to best score is clear. Not everyone plays to win, not everybody can win in a society that constrains individual potential. That the prisoner's dilemma should be a theme of what is political science text that speaks to the math is puzzle and wonder.
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