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Bargaining with your Right Brain

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At the straw market in Nassau, in the Bahamas, — famous for stuff like the straw handbags below — I recently encountered a distinctive culture of bargaining that made me stop and ponder…

Highlights Tour This post is part of the highlights tour, a series of historically significant ribbonfarm posts At the straw market in Nassau, in the Bahamas, -- famous for stuff like the straw handbags below -- I recently encountered a distinctive culture of bargaining that made me stop and ponder the subject (on a beach, aided by rum). The pondering resulted in a neat little flash of insight that allowed me to synthesize everything I know about the subject in a way that surprised me. The short version: game-theoretic and information-theoretic approaches to the subject are something between i

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