Micromotives/Macrobehav Pa(Trade

Thomas C. Schelling's Micromotives and Macrobehavior has long been recognized as a classic work, one that has influenced many twenty-first-century scholars and commentators.The anecdotes and stories that drive the narrative feel as fresh today as the day they were written. More importantly, the central theme of those stories-that a person reacting to their surroundings often fails to perceive how their actions combine with the actions of others to produce unintended, yet significant and often problematic, results for a large group-is more important than ever.

Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Maryland