Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life Reissue Edition

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life Reissue Edition book cover

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life Reissue Edition

Author(s): Avinash K. Dixit (Author), Barry J. Nalebuff (Author)

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication Date: April 17, 1993
  • Edition: Reissue
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 393 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393310353
  • ISBN-13: 9780393310351

Book Description

The international bestseller―don't compete without it!

A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneuvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A gem of a book. It makes some important insights on the frontiers of economics and game theory easily accessible, tremendously enjoyable, and practically useful. --Buron G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street"

Dixit and Nalebuff set out sure-fire rules for thinking about strategy. --David Henderson"

I confess that I have never thought of monetary policy or government as a game, but Professors Dixit and Nalebuff succeed brilliantly in clarifying questions we all face in decision-making, elevated or mundane. --Paul A. Volcker"

Machiavelli is brought up-to-date in this book by Dixit and Nalebuff. They make strategic tools humorous, human, and effective. --Elizabeth Bailey, former dean, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University"

A fascinating new book that can be read with real pleasure.... The problem is, of course, that if Dixit and Nalebuff can improve your strategic IQ, they can improve your competitor's as well. --David Warsh

To be literate in the modern age, you need to have a general understanding of game theory. Dixit and Nalebuff provide the skeleton key. You'll benefit from Thinking Strategically and enjoy the book. --Paul Samuelson

A fascinating new book that can be read with real pleasure.... The problem is, of course, that if Dixit and Nalebuff can improve your strategic IQ, they can improve your competitor's as well and the Japanese rights were sold months ago. --David Warsh

I confess that I have never thought of monetary policy or government as a game, but Professors Dixit and Nalebuff succeed brilliantly in clarifying questions we all face in decision-making, elevated or mundane. --Paul A. Volcker

Machiavelli is brought up-to-date in this book by Dixit and Nalebuff. They make strategic tools humorous, human, and effective. --Elizabeth Bailey, former dean, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University

Thinking Strategically gives you the vital components for good and effective negotiating. --Bob Woolf, author of Friendly Persuasion

To be literate in the modern age, you need to have a general understanding of game theory. Dixit and Nalebuff provide the skeleton key. You'll benefit from Thinking Strategically and enjoy the book. --Paul Samuelson

About the Author

Avinash K. Dixit is Emeritus John J.F. Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he offered his popular freshman course in game theory. He is among the world’s leading economists, having made fundamental contributions in several major fields as well as in game theory. He is the author of many books, including Dixit/Nalebuff: Thinking Strategically (Norton, 1991), Dixit/Pindyck: Investment Under Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 1994), and Dixit/Nalebuff: The Art of Strategy (Norton, 2009).

Barry J. Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor at the Yale School of Management. Nalebuff applies game theory to business strategy and is the co-founder of one of America's fastest-growing companies, Honest Tea.

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