Choice and Consequence

Name: Choice and Consequence
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ISBN: 9780674127715

ISBN-10: 0674127714

ISBN-13: 9780674127715

Edition: 1984

Authors: Thomas C. Schelling

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Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering" an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified. With an ingenious, often startling approach Schelling brings new perspectives to problems ranging from drug abuse, abortion, and the value people put on their…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, 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.




Economic Reasoning and the Ethics of Policy



Command and Control



The Intimate Contest for Self-Command



Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command



The Life You Save May Be Your Own



Strategic Relationships in Dying



Economics and Criminal Enterprise



What Is the Business of Organized Crime?



Strategic Analysis and Social Problems



What Is Game Theory?



A Framework for the Evaluation of Arms Proposals



The Strategy of Inflicting Costs



Who Will Have the Bomb?



Thinking about Nuclear Terrorism



The Mind as a Consuming Organ


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