Games Indians Play: Why We are the Way We areIntending to understand the Indianness of Indians - perhaps the most intelligent people in the world, but also, to a dispassionate eye, among the most baffling - this work uses the props of game theory and behavioural economics to provide an insight into this most difficult question: why are we the way we are? |
Contents
WHY ARE WE THE WAY We are? | 6 |
ON INTELLIGENCE AND RATIONALITY | 22 |
ITERATIVE PRISONERS DILEMMA AND | 49 |
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Praxishandbuch Indien: Wie Sie Ihr Indiengeschäft erfolgreich managen<br> ... Manuel Vermeer,Clas Neumann No preview available - 2007 |