Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding: Scientific Dialogues in Five Acts

Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding: Scientific Dialogues in Five Acts
ISBN-10
3540222952
ISBN-13
9783540222958
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Mamoru Kaneko

Description

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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