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Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington

Harvard Business Review

In other words, it’s an interaction among “agents” who “base their decisions on limited information about actions of other agents in the recent past, and they do not always optimize.”. Jones , with the book Agendas and Instability in American Politics. But the lesson from game theory is that yeah, schmoozing can help.