ISBN:
9781138923034
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIV, 364 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
First issued in paperback
Series Statement:
Routledge frontiers of political economy 174
Series Statement:
Routledge frontiers of political economy
DDC:
330.01
Keywords:
Wirtschaftswissenschaft
;
Wissenschaftliche Methode
;
Homo Oeconomicus
;
Economics
;
Economic policy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
;
Neoklassisches Modell
;
Unbestimmtheit
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the dance of the meta-axioms and its pivotal role in modern economicsRational conflict (on the impossibility of a determinate theory of costly disagreement) -- Unity is strength (it is also the cause of indeterminate wage and employment trades union targets) -- No bluffs please, we are economists (why bluffs and other subversive acts preclude determinate game theoretical analyses) -- Bargaining by rules of thumb (when strategic indeterminacy forces the rational negotiator to fall back on rules of thumb) -- Marxists and the Sirens' song (when disgruntled Marxists reach for game theory's toolbox they get more than they bargained for) -- A theory of solidarity (why indeterminacy is a prerequisite for genuine solidarity) -- The power of what others think -- The social foundations of corruption (on the indeterminate power of what others think) -- Evolving morals in the labatory -- Evolving domination in the labatory -- On the distinction between evolution and history -- Conclusion.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the dance of the meta-axioms and its pivotal role in modern economics -- Rational conflict (on the impossibility of a determinate theory of costly disagreement) -- Unity is strength (it is also the cause of indeterminate wage and employment trades union targets) -- No bluffs please, we are economists (why bluffs and other subversive acts preclude determinate game theoretical analyses) -- Bargaining by rules of thumb (when strategic indeterminacy forces the rational negotiator to fall back on rules of thumb) -- Marxists and the Sirens' song (when disgruntled Marxists reach for game theory's toolbox they get more than they bargained for) -- A theory of solidarity (why indeterminacy is a prerequisite for genuine solidarity) -- The power of what others think -- The social foundations of corruption (on the indeterminate power of what others think) -- Evolving morals in the labatory -- Evolving domination in the labatory -- On the distinction between evolution and history -- Conclusion.
Note:
Englisch
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