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The Presidential Election Game by Steven J. Brams
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.95The Presidential Election Game may change the way you think about presidential elections and, for that matter, American politics in general. It is not filled with statistics about the voting behavior... -
Approval Voting by Steven J. Brams 9780387498959
Booksplease Price: $148.40This book presents a simple and logical potential electoral reform. Under this system, voters may vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they like in multicandidate elections. Among the many... -
Theory of Moves by Steven J. Brams 9780521458672
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $44.69Steven J. Brams' Theory of Moves, though based on the classical theory of games, proposes changes in its rules to render it a truly dynamic theory. By postulating that players think ahead not just to... -
Negotiation Games by Steven J. Brams 9780415308953
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $108.89The concept of negotiation is critical to coping with all manner of strategic problems that arise in the everyday dealings that people have with each other and organizations. Game theory illustrates... -
Game Theory and Politics by Steven J. Brams 9780486434971
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434971Author Steven J. BramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Game Theory and National Security by Steven J. Brams 9781557860033
RRP: $93.50Booksplease Price: $87.28In this path-breaking theoretical work, political scientist Steven Brams and mathematician Mark Kilgour show how game theory can be applied to the rigorous development and thoughtful analysis of... -
Paradoxes in Politics: An Introduction to the Nonobvious in Political Science by Steven J. Brams 9781416572855
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $33.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416572855Author Steven J. BramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Divine Games: Game Theory and the Undecidability of a Superior Being by Steven J. Brams 9780262551458
Booksplease Price: $63.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551458Author Steven J. BramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures by Steven J. Brams
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $76.50Voters today often desert a preferred candidate for a more viable second choice to avoid wasting their vote. Likewise, parties to a dispute often find themselves unable to agree on a fair division of... -
Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution by Steven J. Brams 9780521556446
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91Cutting a cake, dividing up the property in an estate, determining the borders in an international dispute - such problems of fair division are ubiquitous. Fair Division treats all these problems and... -
The Win-Win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody by Steven J. Brams 9780393320817
RRP: $32.18Booksplease Price: $28.49Since the publication of Roger Fisher and William Ury's highly influential book, Getting to Yes, it has been widely recognized that there is a middle ground between winning and losing in negotiation... -
Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know? by Steven J. Brams 9781475718096
Booksplease Price: $91.14The central question I pose in this book is: If there existed a supe rior being who possessed the supernatural qualities of omni science, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility, how would... -
Applied Game Theory: Proceedings of a Conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, June 13-16, 1978 by Steven J. Brams 9783790802085
Booksplease Price: $90.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783790802085Author Steven J. BramsFormat PaperbackPage Count 449Imprint -
Superior Beings. If They Exist, How Would We Know?: Game-Theoretic Implications of Omnipotence, Omniscience, Immortality, and Incomprehensibility by Steven J. Brams 9780387480657
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $51.73The same is true of applications of game theory to history, philosophy religion, and the other humanities. In particular, I know of no attempts to apply game theory to the kinds of p-... -
Cycles and Social Choice: The True and Unabridged Story of a Most Protean Paradox by Thomas Schwartz
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90The centuries-old paradox of voting is that majorities sometimes prefer x to y, y to z, and z to x - a cycle. The discovery of the sources and consequences of such cycles, under majority rule and... -
Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison by Marek M. Kaminski
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.17On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw University student who also ran an... -
David's Politics: Servant, Rebel, King by Paul Abramson 9781498545518
Booksplease Price: $149.19David's Politics evaluates what we can learn about politics by studying David's life as presented in the Books of Samuel through the first two chapters of 1 Kings. I begin by discussing the rules for... -
Theories of Distributive Justice John E. Roemer 9780674879201
Booksplease Price: $90.19Equally at home in economic theory and political philosophy, John Roemer has written a unique book that critiques economists' conceptions of justice from a philosophical perspective and philosophical... -
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present by George G. Szpiro
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $42.53Since the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and... -
Behavioral Social Choice: Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications by Michel Regenwetter 9780521536660
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.42Behavioral Social Choice looks at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making rules. The authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about social choice processes, and... -
Behavioral Social Choice: Probabilistic Models, Statistical Inference, and Applications by Michel Regenwetter 9780521829687
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $145.53Behavioral Social Choice looks at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making rules. The authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about social choice processes, and...