Talk:Commitment device

Relation to precommitment article
The concept of "commitment devices" is sufficiently distinct from the concept of "precommitment" to deserve its own page. Numerous sources indicate it is sufficiently notable for a page to be started. It is an important concept in the fields of economics, decision-making, and game theory. Therefore, I initiated an independent page for it. -- Maxz0r Rackham

Dubner
Dubner is a journalist, not an economist - see http://stephenjdubner.com/bio.html 90.181.189.59 (talk) 16:33, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

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Example of Han Xin
I know, it's an OR argument. Anyway: Commitment devices are all around defined by steering your own future decisions in favour to a prefered one.

When Han Xin positioned his soldiers at the riverbank, he steered the decision (not fleeing but fighting) for other people.

In this reading every prison sentence would be a commitment device, and so much more actions of limiting other's decisions in future. I guess that's not in the spirit of the inventor. --Hæggis (talk) 10:21, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

The same as Strotz' precommitment
There is an example given of Odysseus, whose symbolism was used first by Strotz, not Lewitt-Dubner. You should write that this technique was developed by Strotz ("Myopia and Inconsistency in Dynamic Utility Max", 1956). Pawel.jamiolkowski (talk) 04:35, 26 September 2022 (UTC)