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Dictator's Handbook Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita; Alastair Smith
Category: History
For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the national interest",or even thei ...Show more
Prediction: How to See and Shape the Future with Game Theory by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Category: Fiction
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita can predict the future. From international terrorism to corporate fraud, from climate change to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has been predicting the future for decades. Using Game Theory (a theory based on the rationale that everyone acts in their own ...Show more
The Dictator's Handbook: Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Starting from the simple premise that leaders pursue their own ends, and that populations either have, or more often don't have, the power to constrain them to a significant degree, this book looks at politics, the choices of public policies, and decisions about war and peace as lying outside of convent ...Show more
The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future by Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (New York University)
Category: Business
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and p ...Show more
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