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To: carranza2 who wrote (26468)	4/22/2002 12:58:13 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I even posted about the Schelling piece. oops, that reminds me I never responded about Schelling... Schelling is one of the major economists of the second half of the twentieth century. His greatest mark was probably made through his pioneering applications of game theory to strategic studies, in his 60's books The Strategy of Conflict and Arms and Influence, both of which are still well worth reading. That's the kind of work that talked about things like the value of seeming irrational to opponents. He spent many years at the Kennedy School at Harvard and is now at UMD, and applies economic thinking to public policy issues. Since (despite what one sometimes hears in the American press) the response to global climate change is really less of a science issue than an international coordination game, he's fully qualified to add value to the debate. Unfortunately, I gather he resisted much of the editing, and so his piece probably reads less well than it should. tb@oftenignored,neverignores.com