{"id":9586,"date":"2014-03-27T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2014-03-27T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:16:00","slug":"vladimir-putins-irrational-behavior-why-the-russian-president-wins-if-we-think-he-is-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/27\/vladimir-putins-irrational-behavior-why-the-russian-president-wins-if-we-think-he-is-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin\u2019s irrational behavior: Why the Russian president wins if we think he is crazy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Radnitz suggests that Vladimir Putin is not crazy &mdash; just deliberately acting that way.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;.consider strategic theorist Thomas Schelling\u2019s concept of the \u201crationality of irrationality.\u201d This can be illustrated through the game of chicken, in which two drivers are heading for each other at full speed, and the first to swerve is the chicken. 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It is therefore rational for a player to convince his opponent that he is actually irrational.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/foreigners\/2014\/03\/vladimir_putin_s_irrational_behavior_why_the_russian_president_wins_if_we.html'>Vladimir Putin\u2019s irrational behavior: Why the Russian president wins if we think he is crazy.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Radnitz suggests that Vladimir Putin is not crazy &mdash; just deliberately acting that way. &#8230;.consider strategic theorist Thomas Schelling\u2019s concept of the \u201crationality of irrationality.\u201d This can be illustrated through the game of chicken, in which two drivers are heading for each other at full speed, and the first to swerve is the chicken. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/27\/vladimir-putins-irrational-behavior-why-the-russian-president-wins-if-we-think-he-is-crazy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vladimir Putin\u2019s irrational behavior: Why the Russian president wins if we think he is crazy.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,33,34],"tags":[892,3521,3614],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia-former-ussr","category-the-big-picture","category-uk-europe-countries-regions","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-crimea","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vladimir Putin\u2019s irrational behavior: Why the Russian president wins if we think he is crazy. - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vladimir Putin\u2019s irrational behavior: Why the Russian president wins if we think he is crazy. - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scott Radnitz suggests that Vladimir Putin is not crazy &mdash; 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