Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are - Couverture souple

Raghunathan, V.

 
9780143063117: Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are

Synopsis

Raghunathan writes really well . . . there are rare instances where a reviewer thinks, I wish I could write like that. This is one of those rare instances Bibek Debroy in Indian Express In a rare attempt to understand the Indianness of Indians among the most intelligent people in the world, but also, to a dispassionate eye, perhaps the most baffling V. Raghunathan uses the props of game theory and behavioural economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum of why we are the way we are. He puts under the scanner our attitudes towards rationality and irrationality, selflessness and selfishness, competition and cooperation, and collaboration and deception.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Raghunathan writes really well . . . there are rare instances where a reviewer thinks, I wish I could write like that. This is one of those rare instances Bibek Debroy in Indian Express In a rare attempt to understand the Indianness of Indians among the most intelligent people in the world, but also, to a dispassionate eye, perhaps the most baffling V. Raghunathan uses the props of game theory and behavioural economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum of why we are the way we are. He puts under the scanner our attitudes towards rationality and irrationality, selflessness and selfishness, competition and cooperation, and collaboration and deception.

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9780670999408: Games Indians Play: Why We are the Way We are

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0670999407 ISBN 13 :  9780670999408
Editeur : Penguin Portfolio, 2006
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