Codes of Power Political Thought from Plato's Cave to Game Theory

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How can people with different preferences agree on a common course of action? How can self-interested individuals be persuaded to cooperate rather than fight? Questions such as these have been addressed by concerned thinkers since the days of ancient Greece, and they are no less relevant today. From Plato to Machiavelli, Hobbes to Marx, history's great political philosophers and theorists have sought to make people see the world differently, to think about the order of things and the tenuous balance of forces that exists in society: self-interest versus public-interest, strong leadership versus free will, etc.

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