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The Win-Win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.69
EAN: 9780393320817
ISBN: 0393320812
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2000-10
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Editorial Review:
The authors have patented a procedure that guarantees that both parties to a conflict negotiation, such as divorce, walk away with as much of the win-win potential as possible. Mathematics will now succeed where thousands of solicitors have failed.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Useful Tool, But Not A Panacea
This book introduces only one novel concept, which is okay, because many best-sellers contain no original thought at all.
Brams and Taylor spend the book explaining the concept "adjusted winner" and its implications for dispute resolution. The authors begin by laying the following framework: the dispute involved is a two-party dispute, goods or issues ("items") are being divided, and the division is a voluntary choice.
Within that framework, according to Brams and Taylor, ... Read More
Rating:  - Advance in Dispute Resolution
In a broad perspective, we see a strong desire in society to understand dispute and simplify the process of closure. In one camp, there have always been those who have worked toward addressing the underlying reality of disputes through logic and wisdom (Solomon for example). In another camp, there have always been those who have arbitrarily simplified dispute resolution leading to forced, bureaucratic solutions, which more often than not led to a more intense conflict.
In this reviewer's opinion, ... Read More
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