Thomas C. Schelling

Power And Struggle begins with an examination of political power. It is often assumed that power derives from violence and can be controlled only by greater violence. Actually, power derives from sources in the society which may be restricted or severed by withdrawal of cooperation by the populace. The political power of governments may in fact be very fragile. Even the power of dic...

Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering" an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence , he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit