{"id":880,"date":"2010-11-30T06:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/?p=880"},"modified":"2010-11-30T06:36:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:36:47","slug":"a-brief-note-for-now-on-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/2010\/11\/30\/a-brief-note-for-now-on-negotiation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Note (for Now) on Negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the time I took to reading Thomas Schelling’s famous book, The Strategy of Conflict<\/em>, I started to see life as a negotiation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the book, Schelling sees conflicts as “essentially bargaining situations.”\u00a0 While I can’t remember my exact evolution of thought, it seems that somewhere around that sentence in the book I started to interpret “bargaining” as “negotiation,” and from there, conflicts as negotiations, and from there, nearly every interaction as a negotiation of some sort.<\/p>\n

Many people see negotiations as verbal exchanges.\u00a0 I say what I want, you say what you want, and we bicker and dicker to reach an agreement.\u00a0 However, (obviously?), not all negotiations are verbal.\u00a0 “Negotiation” has to do in general with any kind of manuveuring.\u00a0 You negotiate pedestrians on a busy New York City sidewalk.\u00a0 You negotiate cars and tractor trailers on the highway.\u00a0 You negotiate for age as you make health choices.<\/p>\n

Some of the archetypal games outlined in game theory–like Chicken, Prisoner’s Dilemma, and others not coming to mind at the moment–outline\u00a0common negotiations<\/em>.\u00a0 I had forgotten that.\u00a0 I had struggled for a long time with forgetting that bargaining meant (to me) negotiation<\/em>, and as a result, I forgot the meaning of “game” and the meaning of “bargaining” that I used in my teaching.\u00a0 “What’s a game?\u00a0 What’s bargaining?\u00a0 Well, it’s (essentially a) negotiation.”<\/p>\n

I’m hoping I’ve arrived back at understanding.\u00a0 Stay tuned: I hope to write more on negotiation in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About the time I took to reading Thomas Schelling’s famous book, The Strategy of Conflict, I started to see life as a negotiation. In the book, Schelling sees conflicts as “essentially bargaining situations.”\u00a0 While I can’t remember my exact evolution of thought, it seems that somewhere around that sentence in the book I started to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,189,191,43,187,190,188,45],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-semantics","tag-bargaining-situation","tag-chicken","tag-game","tag-game-theory","tag-negotiation","tag-prisoners-dilemma","tag-the-strategy-of-conflict","tag-thomas-schelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/offthemap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}