Two Books worth reading
Richard Fiero
rfiero at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 01:43:21 CDT 2009
alice wellintown wrote:
> Watermark by Joseph Brodsky
>
>Thomas C. Schelling see his Nobel Lecture on the bomb ...can't
>remeber the book ...games and crowds theory
Thomas Schelling is an interesting case indeed. RAND, the Pentagon
and an early proponent of game theory who eventually thought game
theory just too cute to be real and favored a more intuitive and
scary approach.
Maybe see "A Cold War Conundrum"
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/a-cold-war-conundrum/source.htm#HEADING1-12
Someone needs to write the post WWII history up through, say, Reagan.
Alice?
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