According to Chwe, Austen even has lessons for game theorists today. Chwe showed us how Austen theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, argued that jointly strategizing with a partner is the surest foundation for intimacy and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Jane Austen didn’t apply the math but she was a master at the penetrating observation of people and their strategies. Chwe explained that strategic thinking is game theory’s central concept: When choosing an action, a person thinks about how others will act. Game theory is the technical and mathematical study of how people make choices while interacting with others. He shared Jane Austen’s remarkable insights into strategic thinking, with examples taken from her novels. (For a full account of how Binc responded in the first few months to the pandemic, see this Shelf Awareness article from May 2020.More than 80 members and guests the Fall 2013 half-day meeting to hear Michael Suk-Young Chwe discuss his recently released book, Jane Austen, Game Theorist. "Folks found us when the need was highest." "It's humbling to know that what we have been working towards for the past eight years, all of the advocacy we did and conversations we had, it paid off," French says. At this time, Binc was receiving a new request for assistance every 15 minutes, all day every day. As a result of all this, Binc was able to send out the first checks to individual applicants on March 17. They also relied on a public health emergency policy that Binc had formulated in the past.
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