ASC 2012 | Prof. Robert J. Aumann | War and Peace
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: game theory
How did you use Game Theory to predict the Gaza War? – Prof. Robert Aumann (Nobel Prize Economist)
13 May 2018 1 Comment
in economics Tags: game theory, Gaza Strip
My @DomPost op-ed on petrol pricing and the theory of the empty core @EricCrampton
03 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: cartel theory, conspiracy theories, game theory
Can Game Theory Avoid Wars? | UBS Nobel Perspectives
02 May 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: game theory
Hey @GarethMP said missile attacks never once promoted peace
15 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Balkins war, game theory, Syrian Civil War
What North Koreans Think of America [Full] | ASIAN BOSS
13 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: game theory, North Korea
Plea bargaining has its critics
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in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, game theory
DANIEL PIPES: ACHIEVING PEACE THROUGH ISRAELI VICTORY
03 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: game theory, Middle-East politics, Palestine
We need the Israelis to impose their will on their enemy, the Palestinians. The Palestinians need to accept the permanent existence of a Jewish state. The U.S. government should encourage the Israeli government to do everything within the bounds of the practical, the moral, and the legal to effect that victory.
This doesn’t mean murdering people but taking steps to compel Palestinians to give up, to cry uncle, to say, “The jig is up. We can’t continue this. We need to coexist with our neighbor.” At that point, liberated from their foul, irredentist goal of eliminating their neighbor, Palestinians can begin to build their own polity, economy, society and culture.
Ironically, the Palestinians will win even more from their defeat than will the Israelis. Israelis won’t get blown up on the way to the pizzeria, but they basically a good life economically, legally, culturally, and so forth. The Palestinian live in oppression and poverty. They can only leave that once they give up the monstrous goal of eliminating their enemy.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/245475235
Edward Luttwak argued the same thing ten years ago in general terms
An unpleasant truth often overlooked is that although war is a great evil, it does have a great virtue: it can resolve political conflicts and lead to peace. This can happen when all belligerents become exhausted or when one wins decisively. Either way the key is that the fighting must continue until a resolution is reached. War brings peace only after passing a culminating phase of violence. Hopes of military success must fade for accommodation to become more attractive than further combat.
Since the establishment of the United Nations and the enshrinement of great-power politics in its Security Council, however, wars among lesser powers have rarely been allowed to run their natural course. Instead, they have typically been interrupted early on, before they could burn themselves out and establish the preconditions for a lasting settlement. Cease-fires and armistices have frequently been imposed under the aegis of the Security Council in order to halt fighting. NATO’s intervention in the Kosovo crisis follows this pattern.
But a cease-fire tends to arrest war-induced exhaustion and lets belligerents reconstitute and rearm their forces. It intensifies and prolongs the struggle once the cease-fire ends — and it does usually end.
Doctor Strangelove – Doomsday Machine
14 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, movies Tags: game theory, mutually assured destruction
What game theory teaches us about war | Simon Sinek
11 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
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Climate economics (UG): International environmental agreements in theory
26 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economics, Public Choice Tags: free riding, game theory, global warming, international public goods
Stirring the possum on a nuclear free world
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in defence economics Tags: game theory, mutually assured destruction, strategic deterrence. cold war, Thomas Schelling
Just how many wars could @JeremyCorbyn’s diplomatic skills have avoided?
03 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: diplomacy, game theory
.@TheEconomist thinks US domestic airlines are a successful oligopoly!?
05 May 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, transport economics Tags: airline deregulation, cartel theory, cartels, conspiracy theories, game theory, oligopolies
ON THE PERSISTENT FINANCIAL LOSSES OF U.S. AIRLINES: A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION Severin Borenstein Working Paper 16744 January 2011.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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