Paradoxes of Rationality: Games, Metagames, and Political Behavior

by Nigel Howard

Book Overview

Since the theory of metagames is a thoroughly new development, built up from "classical" game theory, the author has taken great care to assess the soundness of its structural parts, proving all assertions and evoking a high degree of mathematical rigor and generality akin to that found in abstract set theory in pure mathematics. However, the aim of his work is to produce a technique that can be used to resolve real-life, real-time conflict situations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026208046X
• ISBN13: 9780262080460
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.