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RE: Playing the Game of Strategy
..which is the wisdom behind the statements about winning the battle but losing the war, or playing the long game.
..which is the wisdom behind the statements about winning the battle but losing the war, or playing the long game.
The Dixit book is very very good. Probably the best & most actionable popular introduction to game theory that I know.
I checked out the amazon reviews. "Actionable" is the key, isn't it? Not like those academic works which are totally useless in practical life.
Do you know {ipse dixit}? It's humorous that an author named Dixit discusses perspectives and even how one can get trapped in a perspective.
I don't know him personally but I went to a lecture by him once. Dixit is a pretty common Indian surname from what I can see. There are a few Bollywood stars with that name and people make fun of it all the time.
Most of academic economics is pretty useless & wrong anyway -- except for certain subfields within game theory imo, most of which contains too much unnecessary formalism.
A quick internet search says {dixit}//{dikshit(ar)} is Hindi. It's cool to learn it signifies "giver of knowledge" and was a name for the Brahmin caste. Seeing as Sanskrit and Latin are related it makes sense there is a connection between the meanings of {dixit}. Learning this just makes it doubly ironic, b/c it's like Dixit should be the one to know being a "giver of knowledge" ;) and yet how could he be right when it's only his point of view ;) --maybe it is not so amusing but I find these are bon mots.