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Economic indeterminacy : a personal encounter with the economists' peculiar nemesis / Yanis Varoufakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varoufakis, Yanis.
- Series:
- Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 174.
- Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 174
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 364 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415668491
- 0415668492
- OCLC:
- 829097248
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