Michael Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he worked from 1985 to 2002. From 1966 to 1985 he was in the Department of Government at the University of Essex in England. Trained as a mathematician, he moved into social science and did pioneering early work in mathematical political theory. His work in game theory, including original analyses of the n-person Prisoner's Dilemma game and the logic of collective action, resulted in an influential book, "Anarchy and Cooperation", later revised and extended as "The Possibility of Cooperation". A second book on cooperation in the absence of centralized government, "Community, Anarchy and Liberty", was published in 1982, and a study of "Rationality and Revolutionary Collective Action" appeared in his edited volume, "Rationality and Revolution". He became increasingly disenchanted with the rational choice approach to political theory and published "Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection", an attack on the economic way of thinking about the world, especially the natural world. The book was described by James C. 

January 1st, 1942 in (Age 82)