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First edition, first printing, of the Nobel Laureate economist's most influential book, pioneering the application of game theory to political and social analysis. The work developed from Schelling's work at the RAND Corporation on the nuclear arms race: one insight is that a country's best defence against nuclear war may be the protection of its weapons, not its soldiers. The Times Literary Supplement judged Schelling's work one of the 100 most influential books published in the West since 1945. Times Literary Supplement, 6 Oct. 1995. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Housed in custom green cloth solander box. Tables and diagrams in the text. Late 20th-century pencil ownership signature of Stanley C. Wisniewski, an American copyright judge, to front pastedown. Cloth bright, minimal bumping, contents fresh; minor rubbing, chipping, and finger soiling to unclipped jacket, faint sunning to spine, short closed tear to rear panel fold: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.