Games: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation

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David William Blagden, David Blagden, Mark de Rond
Cambridge University Press, 2018 - Business & Economics - 153 pages
The essays from prominent public intellectuals collected in this volume reflect an array of perspectives on the spectrum of conflict, competition, and cooperation, as well as a wealth of expertise on how games manifest in the world, how they operate, and how social animals behave inside them. They include previously unpublished material by former Cabinet minister Sayeeda Warsi, the philosopher A. C. Grayling, legal scholar Nicola Padfield, cycling coach David Brailsford, former military intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge, neuro-psychologist Barbara J. Sahakian, zoological ecologist Nicholas B. Davies, and the final work of the late Nobel laureate Thomas C. Schelling. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the history, nature, and dynamics of games.
 

Contents

INTRO
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c01
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c02
25
c03
41
c04
61
c05
80
c06
101
c07
120
AFTERWORD
145
INDEX
151
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About the author (2018)

David Blagden is Lecturer in International Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter and was previously the Adrian Research Fellow in International Politics at Darwin College, Cambridge. He is widely published in the scholarly and popular press, has served as a witness for several Parliamentary inquiries, and consults for numerous policy organisations. Dr Blagden has also won the Royal United Service Institute's Trench Gascoigne Prize for original writing on defence and security. Mark de Rond is Professor of Organisational Ethnography at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. A recurring feature in his work is the experience of being human in high-performing environments. His research has been widely reported in the press. His most recent fieldwork involved a world-first attempt to scull the navigable length of the River Amazon unsupported.