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