Table of Contents

1: Choice and desire
2: Reason and rationality
3: Racing and roulette
4: Gambling and insurance
5: Conflict and cooperation
6: Democracy and Dictatorship

About the Author

Michael Allingham is a Fellow and the Senior Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford. He read natural philosophy and then political economy at the University of Edinburgh and subsequently taught at a number of universities in the United Kingdom and the United States; he has also held visiting positions at universities in Italy, France and Austria. His previous books include Equilibrium and Disequilibrium, General Equilibrium, Value,
Unconscious Contracts, Theory of Markets, and Rational Choice.

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