"China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security. The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east…
"Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated mark…
"This book describes the theory structure underlying contests, in which players expend effort and/or spend money in trying to get ahead of one another. Uniquely, this effort is sunk and cannot be recovered, regardless of whether a player wins or loses in the competition. Such in…
Competition: what it is and why it happens
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their time engaged in or thinking about competition. Organised competitions - with rules, audiences and winners - included the Olympic and gladiatorial games. Informal, indefinite, often violent, competition involved fundamental goals …