E-Book, Englisch, Band 21, 248 Seiten
Reihe: Studies in Economic Theory
Kaneko Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-26812-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Scientific Dialogues in Five Acts
E-Book, Englisch, Band 21, 248 Seiten
Reihe: Studies in Economic Theory
ISBN: 978-3-540-26812-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book consists of five acts and two interludes, which are all written as dialogues between three main characters and other supporting characters. Each act discusses the epistemological, institutional and methodological foundations of game theory and economics, while using various stories and examples. A featured aspect of those discussions is that many forms of mutual misunderstanding are involved in social situations as well as in those fields themselves. One Japanese traditional comic story called the Konnyaku Mondo is representative and gives hints of how our thought is constrained by incorrect beliefs. Each dialogue critically examines extant theories and common misunderstanding in game theory and economics in order to find possible future developments of those fields.
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1;Prologue;6
2;Table of Contents;10
3;Act 1 The reversal of particularity and generality in economics;12
3.1;Scene 1 The St Petersburg game;12
3.2;Scene 2 Paradox;21
3.3;Scene 3 Generalities in economics and game theory;31
3.4;Scene 4 The reversal of particularity and generality;38
4;Act 2 Konnyaku Mondo and Game Theory;50
4.1;Scene 1 Konnyaku Mondo;50
4.2;Scene 2 The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Battle of the Sexes;60
4.3;Scene 3 Games with incomplete information;69
4.4;Scene 4 Rashomon;80
5;Act 3 The market economy in a rage;90
5.1;Scene 1 Market equilibrium and social dilemma;90
5.2;Scene 2 Market failure and widespread externalities;99
5.3;Scene 3 Epistemological consideration of perfect competition;110
5.4;Scene 4 Institutional consideration of perfect competition;121
6;Act 4 Decision making and Nasli equilibrium;149
6.1;Scene 1 Recent topics;149
6.2;Scene 2 Interpretations of the Nash equilibrium;160
6.3;Scene 3 Infinite regress and common knowledge;171
6.4;Scene 4 Mixed strategies;184
6.5;Scene 5 Equilibrium as a stationary state;199
7;Act 5 The individual and society;205
7.1;Scene 1 Individualism;205
7.2;Scene 2 Ism;217
7.3;Scene 3 Connections between the individual and society;227
7.4;Scene 4 Internal mental structure of the individual;236
8;Epilogue;250
9;Acknowledgements;254
10;The author;256
