Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0674025679
- ISBN-13
- 9780674025677
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 341
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09-30
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Thomas C. Schelling
Description
All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. 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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