Some 50 years after his article “Hockey Helmets, Concealed Weapons, and Daylight Saving: A Study of Binary Choices with Externalities“, there are remains basic confusions about the varieties of social dilemmas or predicaments. There are 3 sorts of confusions: not distinguishing between a “Schelling” diagram and a “Dawes” diagram, not distinguishing between the basic shapes…
Schelling argues that resolving conflicts require a different attitude than solving a mathematical problem. “Taking a hint is fundamentally different from deciphering aformal communication or solving a mathematical problem;it involves discovering a message that has been plantedwithin a context by someone who thinks he shares withthe recipient certain impressions or associations.” This idea is explored…
This is a remarkable paper by Schelling, in part because he is asking for examples of his models. This is unusual, as Schelling usually has a wealth of genuine examples for each model he discusses. One of the benefits of the WM Toolkit for Negotiation trainers is that we can construct the discrete versions for…
