Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding (eBook)

Scientific Dialogues in Five Acts

Mamoru Kaneko (Autor)

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2005 | 2005
X, 248 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-26812-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Prologue 6
Table of Contents 10
Act 1 The reversal of particularity and generality in economics 12
Scene 1 The St Petersburg game 12
Scene 2 Paradox 21
Scene 3 Generalities in economics and game theory 31
Scene 4 The reversal of particularity and generality 38
Act 2 Konnyaku Mondo and Game Theory 50
Scene 1 Konnyaku Mondo 50
Scene 2 The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Battle of the Sexes 60
Scene 3 Games with incomplete information 69
Scene 4 Rashomon 80
Act 3 The market economy in a rage 90
Scene 1 Market equilibrium and social dilemma 90
Scene 2 Market failure and widespread externalities 99
Scene 3 Epistemological consideration of perfect competition 110
Scene 4 Institutional consideration of perfect competition 121
Act 4 Decision making and Nasli equilibrium 149
Scene 1 Recent topics 149
Scene 2 Interpretations of the Nash equilibrium 160
Scene 3 Infinite regress and common knowledge 171
Scene 4 Mixed strategies 184
Scene 5 Equilibrium as a stationary state 199
Act 5 The individual and society 205
Scene 1 Individualism 205
Scene 2 Ism 217
Scene 3 Connections between the individual and society 227
Scene 4 Internal mental structure of the individual 236
Epilogue 250
Acknowledgements 254
The author 256

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2005
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Economic Theory
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Economic Theory
• Übersetzer: R. Vanbaelen, M. Kaneko
• Zusatzinfo: X, 248 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Common Knowledge • Decision Making • Economics • Equilibrium • Game Theory • Nash Equilibrium
• ISBN-10: 3-540-26812-X / 354026812X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-26812-3 / 9783540268123