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The Strategy of Conflict

By: Thomas C. Schelling
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory - the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering in limited war and in a traffic jam; deterring the Russians and one's own children; the modern strategy of terror and the ancient institution of hostages.

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the book is good. just difficult to follow if listening while on the drive due to constant reference to the pdf

Good Classic

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Loved it. Less easy to listen to on the road with all the tables in the text.

Great read

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Interesting book but I would not recommend listening to it as an audiobook. Some of the heavier math will be incomprehensible.

Just get the print book

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it was like drinking from a fire hose trying to follow the author. so much info and such in depth thinking, but I came out of the experience with a *much* deeper appreciation of certain phenomena in the world and a much more nuanced view of negotiations and games. probably not the best intro to the topic, but well worth the read.

wow, brand new perspective...

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I would recommend without hesitation but a reread of some sections with a regular copy may be necessary. Audio descriptions of decision matrices are hard to understand.

Excellent and revealing, but uses visual aids

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The associated PDF has visual aids / graphs /etc some chapters don't need them, but others do.

An important book. PDF helps.

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Very insightful. Deep understanding of the strategy of conflict and how it effects us. Some parts of listening to the explanation of the charts made me wish I had a hard copy in front of me.

May want the book.

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this is too much like a text book you consume by audio. about 30% is reading long mathematical expressions and describing matrices, which really need to be viewed to understand.

I'm sure the actual content is good when consumed the correct way.

does not work as an audiobook

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There is just nothing here, just nothing, please save ur time, it’s more useless than On War :)

Pure crap

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I tried listening multiple times over a three week period and finally stopped after chapter 3. The theory may be good but it reads like text without good examples to support. Someone respond if I should go further..

Disappointed

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