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We live in an age of games. It is a time when our most personal actions are acknowledged as “games people play”, when our highest elected officials unfold their “economic game plans”, and when our academic and business colleagues exhort us “to play the game” for our professional success.
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Wise, J.A. (1977). The Psychology of the Ouija Board. In: Jungermann, H., De Zeeuw, G. (eds) Decision Making and Change in Human Affairs. Theory and Decision Library, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1276-8_11
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