This thinker visualized arms races as a "competitive dialogue," and showed that two people simply told to meet somewhere in New York City would likely go to places such as Grand Central Station to explain his theory of focal points.
This thinker criticized Becker and Murphy's argument that drug addiction is rational by claiming that addictive behavior results from people losing struggles against self-control in his article "The Intimate Contest for Self-Command." This thinker modeled a traffic jam to show how aggregate behavior results from individuals not caring about the effects of their actions on others in Micromotives and Macrobehavior. He placed pennies and nickels on a board and randomly moved the ones adjacent to coins of the same color to demonstrate how minor racial preferences could still result in fully segregated neighborhoods. This thinker visualized arms races as a "competitive dialogue," and showed that two people simply told to meet somewhere in New York City would likely go to places such as Grand Central Station to explain his theory of focal points. For 10 points, name this author of Arms and Influence and The Strategy of Conflict, whose application of game theory to nuclear war helped win him the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.
This thinker criticized Becker and Murphy's argument that drug addiction is rational by claiming that addictive behavior results from people losing struggles against self-control in his article
Thomas Schelling