Nobel Prize-Winner Thomas Schelling

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Multiple Choice

Nobel prize-winner Thomas Schelling

• A) opposed the use of game theory as a means of analyzing strategic situations.
• B) used mathematics to give precise formulations to game theory.
• C) described drug addiction as a "game against oneself."
• D) had his life portrayed in the movie A Beautiful Mind.

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