@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt24hq36.12, ISBN = {9780691162447}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hq36.12}, abstract = {Austen carefully distinguishes strategic thinking from concepts possibly confused with it: selfishness, moralistic notions of what a person “should” do, economistic values, and winning inconsequential games. Like any social theorist, Austen seeks conceptual clarity. But she also wants to make particularly clear that she is not advocating selfishness or money-centrism or one-upmanship or anything as vulgar as telling young women “how to behave.” Strategic thinking should not be confused with a set of hackneyed prescriptions.For Austen, strategic thinking is not equivalent to selfishness. Of course some people exemplify both strategicness and selfishness, such as Willoughby and Lucy Steele. But}, bookauthor = {Michael Suk-Young Chwe}, booktitle = {Jane Austen, Game Theorist}, pages = {133--140}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {Austen on What Strategic Thinking Is Not}, year = {2013} }