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Robert Axelrod's Books
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Harnessing ComplexityRecent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be...Read More
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Smart Investor, February 1, 2012
...create cooperating agents in a system is one of the most important and least understood phenomena in nature, Robert Axelrod, American political scientist explained how cooperation could spread in a society. Conversely, how a cooperative society could be...
Australian Financial Review, March 3, 2012
TwinCities.com, February 29, 2012
...much of the work of the eclectic younger scholars, "behavioral economists," implicitly hinges on what political scientist Robert Axelrod termed "the evolution of cooperation." We can expect to hear more of this as time goes on. But what about ongoing...
Borneo Post Online, February 28, 2012
...happen if Bart and Lisa had to play the game repeatedly? What would be the rational winning strategy? Robert Axelrod in his book ‘Evolution of Cooperation’ described a tournament he organised to find an optimum strategy for repeated plays. He invited...
Gothamist, February 16, 2012
...that shine, particularly the father and son who run the mall's used toilet paper business. Fans of Robert Axelrod and Tennessee Winston Luke won't be disappointed: they appear in the appropriately titled "Understanding Your Movie" vignettes to assist the...
Smart Investor, February 1, 2012
...create cooperating agents in a system is one of the most important and least understood phenomena in nature, Robert Axelrod, American political scientist explained how cooperation could spread in a society. Conversely, how a cooperative society could be...
Kashmir Times, January 28, 2012
...since Bob Trivers (‘inclusive fitness’), in game theory by Elinor Ostrom and others, and in political science by Robert Axelrod. In a neat about-turn from his phrase ‘the selfish gene’, Richard Dawkins now points to models where ‘nice guys...
Prospect, January 26, 2012
...a wide variety of thinkers, from the biologist John Maynard Smith (its original proponent) via the political scientist Robert Axelrod to such popularisers as Matt Ridley and Richard Dawkins. But even if morality is a partly acquired characteristic that...
