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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