Passion for Cooperation

Passion for Cooperation

Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist

Axelrod, Robert

The University of Michigan Press

11/2023

178

Mole

Inglês

9780472056552

15 a 20 dias

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List of Illustrations
Foreword by Douglas Hofstadter
Part I. A Splendid Education
1. Family, Math, and Competitiveness
2. Computers and Modeling
3. Culture and More Math at College
4. Internships on Statistics, Evolution, and National Security
5. Political Science in Graduate School
Part II. Being There
6. Berkeley in a Time of Troubles, 1968-74
7. Walking the Interdisciplinary Walk at Michigan, 1974-
Part III. Cooperation
8. Tournaments
9. Evolution
10. Trench Warfare
11. Responses
Part IV. Self-Organization
12. Minimizing the Strangeness of Bedfellows
13. Social Polarization
14. Belief Systems
Part V. Sex and Cancer
15. The Reason for Sexual Reproduction
16. Cancer as Social Dysfunction
Part VI. Outside the Ivory Tower
17. Opposing the Vietnam War
18. Trying to Reduce the Risk of War
19. Countering Hostile Influence
Part VII. Concluding Thoughts
20. Crossing the Moat
21. Looking Forward
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
List of Illustrations Figure 1. In Oval Office, March 6,1961
Figure 2. The BACH group in the late 1980s
From left to right: Michael Cohen, Robert Axelrod, William Hamilton, Arthur Burks, John Holland, Rick Riolo, Michael Savageau, Carl Simon.
Figure 3. Possible Alignments on the Eve of World War II
Figure 4. Rich Davis, me, Scott Atran, and Safwat Hegazi in Cairo, Oct. 2012
Figure 5. Receiving the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama, November 20, 2014
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Cooperation, international relations; international security; game theory; Prisoner’s Dilemma; tit-for-tat, evolutionary biology, cancer, interdisciplinary research; collaboration; trench warfare; World War I; Russia; China; Israel; terrorism; conflict resolution; computer tournaments; simulation; mathematics; complexity; social science; economics; law; history; shadow of the future; competition; National Medal of Science; MacArthur Prize; Boris Mints Prize; Hamas; Jordan; Syria; Prime Minister; evolutionary biologists; interdisciplinary research