Thoughts on some of your comments

Thanks for the nice comments on the book and the Jon Stewart appearance. It was lots of fun — he is smart and charming as well as very witty and quick on his feet.

There is little that is secret about my algorithms, claims by the History Channel and some others notwithstanding. It is true that I make some arbitrary assumptions to turn theory in to practical use and those few practical assumptions are unpublished but then there is no reason anyone should think my arbitrary hand waves to make things work are better than those by anyone else. For my older model you can get the details from Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Predicting Politics (Ohio State University Press, 2002) or European Community Decision Making (co-edited with Frans Stokman, Yale University Press, 1994). For my new model see the paper I gave at the International Studies Association meeting in New York in February 2009. There are lots more publications by me on the construction of the models in numerous peer reviewed journals but I think the citations above should keep any of you who are interested pretty busy.

The new model, in somewhat simplified form, is available on the Game page of this web site if you want to play with it. That’s all for now. A little later I hope to post some thoughts on health care.

Bruce

6 Comments Add your own

  • 1. John G  |  September 30th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Thank you!

    I was worried I would have to enroll as one of your grad students to learn more!

    Very generous of you to share!
    -John

  • 2. Jerome  |  October 7th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Thank you for the info. I wanted to know more about your algorithm for curiosity’s sake.

    I too was worried I would have to enroll as one of your grad students to find out. Maybe sometime down the road though.

    Thanks again.

  • 3. kinsella  |  October 16th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    1998 tarnak farm
    bin laden deas ?

  • 4. Bruce  |  May 21st, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    Thank you for the info. I wanted to know more about your algorithm for curiosity’s sake.

    I too was worried I would have to enroll as one of your grad students to find out. Maybe sometime down the road though.

    Thanks again.

  • 5. Kendall  |  July 3rd, 2010 at 7:49 am

    Thank you for the info. I wanted to know more about your algorithm for curiosity’s sake.

    I too was worried I would have to enroll as one of your grad students to find out. Maybe sometime down the road though.

    Thanks again.

  • 6. Christa Johnston  |  December 25th, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Thank you for the info. I wanted to know more about your algorithm for curiosity’s sake. I too was worried I would have to enroll as one of your grad students to find out. Maybe sometime down the road though. Thanks again.

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