Jane Austen, Game Theorist : Updated Edition / Michael Suk-Young Chwe.
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TextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Updated edition with a New AfterwordDescription: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 5 line illus. 9 tablesContent type: - 9780691155760
- 9781400851331
- Game theory in literature
- Game theory -- Social aspects
- Rational choice theory
- Social Sciences -- Political Science -- Political Science, other
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
- African American folktales
- Black Boy
- Brer Rabbit
- Cold War
- Fallujah
- Flossie Finley
- Flossie and the Fox
- Fox
- Jane Austen
- Malitis
- Mansfield Park
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Northanger Abbey
- Oklahoma!
- Persuasion
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Tar Baby
- bargaining position
- children
- choice
- civil rights movement
- cluelessness
- commensurability
- constancy
- economics
- economism
- economistic values
- emotions
- empathy
- folk game theory
- folktales
- foresight
- game theory
- habit
- human behavior
- human nature
- ideology
- inconsequential games
- instinct
- intoxication
- literature
- manipulation
- mental laziness
- money-centrism
- moral life
- moralism
- multiple selves
- naivety
- novels
- penetration
- power
- preferences
- presumption
- pride
- rational choice theory
- resistance
- rules
- sagacity
- self-management
- self-reference
- selfishness
- slaves
- social distance
- social factors
- social status
- socialization
- speculation
- status maintenance
- strategic partnership
- strategic sophomores
- strategic thinking
- strategic wisdom
- superiors
- 823.7 23
- PR4038.G36
- online - DeGruyter
- Issued also in print.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER TWO. Game Theory in Context -- CHAPTER THREE. Folktales and Civil Rights -- CHAPTER FOUR. Flossie and the Fox -- CHAPTER FIVE. Jane Austen's Six Novels -- CHAPTER SIX. Austen's Foundations of Game Theory -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Austen's Competing Models -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Austen on What Strategic Thinking Is Not -- CHAPTER NINE. Austen's Innovations -- CHAPTER TEN. Austen on Strategic Thinking's Disadvantages -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Austen's Intentions -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Austen on Cluelessness -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Real-World Cluelessness -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Concluding Remarks -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- References -- Index
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Game theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago-over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.
Issued also in print.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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