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Prediction

How to See and Shape the Future with Game Theory

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Jul '10

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A dazzling, provocative and utterly engrossing account of how one man is able to predict the future.

Using Game Theory (a theory based on the rationale that everyone acts in their own self-interest) he can foretell and even engineer events.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita can predict the future.

From international terrorism to corporate fraud, from climate change to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has been predicting the future for decades. Using Game Theory (a theory based on the rationale that everyone acts in their own self-interest) he can foretell and even engineer events. His forecasts, for everyone from the CIA to major international companies, have an extraordinary 90% success rate.

In this fascinating and immensely readable book he explains how you can use Game Theory to your own advantage - to win a legal dispute, advance your career and even get the best possible price for your car. Prediction will change your understanding of the world - both now and in the future.

A fascinating new book -- Daniel Finkelstein * The Times *
Mesquita offers zingily provocative contemporary policy ideas * Guardian *
A very interesting and entertaining read * www.thebookbag.co.uk *
Impressive * Economist *
Fruitful reading that will make it difficult to look at the world through quite the same eyes as in one's virginal, pre-game theory days * Kirkus Reviews *

ISBN: 9780099531845

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 202g

288 pages