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War – What is it Good For?
Spoiler: positive expected utility. That’s what it’s good for.In The War Trap[1], Bruce Bueno de Mesquita lays out a theory of war that beats all other theories. This is a great example of a model that is parsimonious, wrong, and useful. For every assumption Bueno de Mesquita makes, the reader goes, “What? That’s not h