Choice and Consequence

Schelling, Thomas C.

ISBN 10: 0674127706 / ISBN 13: 9780674127708

Published by Harvard Univ Pr, 1984

About this Item

Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Foxing to top edge. Jacket sunned. Binding slightly splayed. Scattered underlining and markings to a couple pages. Thomas Schelling is a political economist 'conspicuous for wandering' An errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Choice and Consequence
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674127706
• ISBN 13: 9780674127708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business and Economics

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Synopsis

A political economist examines the subject of ambiguous rationality in relation to such phenomena as nuclear terrorism, blackmail, euthanasia, and daydreaming and discusses the ethical issues of policy

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Thomas Schelling is a political economist 'conspicuous for wandering' --an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as some as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified.