Abstract
You are upstairs in your study at home. Your spouse or partner is in the kitchen below. You receive a ‘phone call from work: you have to cancel the holiday which the two of you have been looking forward to all year because you are needed at work.
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Nigel Howard
NIGEL HOWARD is a consultant game theorist, working for governments and corporations analysing problems of conflict/co-operation using the CONAN computer program. His methods are based on metagame theory, which he initiated in the 1960s at the University of Pennsylvania. The method of analysis accounts for emotions and irrational factors as well as rational ones. Nigel also teaches part-time at the Aston Business School in Birmingham.