Tim May writes:

Schelling points need not involve "coordination" between actors, though Schelling points provide one means of coordination without communication (e.g., where does each think a meeting will occur).

Schelling points are like "The Match Game" (an old t.v. show largely written by one of the main contributors to "Mad Magazine"). Namely, "Name a place likely to be attacked by terrorists."

This isn't EconPunks, so I'll just say I haven't seen the term used except in the context of tacit coordination (see <http://www.best.com/ ~ddfr/Academic/Property/Property.html> for some examples). There is some coordination here, I guess: terrorists and television crews both benefit from being in the same place when the bomb goes off. But this probably isn't a driving motivation for either. -- Eli Brandt eli+@cs.cmu.edu