During the whole of a dull, cramped and wearisome flight
from Israel to New York, as the night pressed heavily against the airplane
windows, Ariel Rubinstein had been toiling through a singularly dreary article
on game theory; and at length the economist found himself, as the sharpness of
his focus waned, seeking respite from the tedium in Edgar Allan Poe’s short
story “The Purloined Letter.
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