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The obvious place to compromise frequently seems to win by some kind of default, as if there were simply no rationale for settling anywhere else.

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But now it seems that Schelling doth protest too much, in fact, tacit bargaining ought not to be understood as a special edge case which is relevant only insofar as it approximates the more general case of explicit, verbal, negotiation.

Quite the contrary.

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