ISBN: 3540222952
TITLE: Game Theory and Mutual Misunderstanding
AUTHOR: Kaneko
TOC:

Act 1 The reversal of particularity and generality in economics 1
Scene 1 The St Petersburg game 1
Scene 2 Paradox 9
Scene 3 Generalities in economics and game theory 20
Scene 4 The reversal of particularity and generality 27
Act 2 Konnyaku Mondo and Game Theory 39
Scene 1 Konnyaku Mondo 39
Scene 2 The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Battle of the Sexes 49
Scene 3 Games with incomplete information 59
Scene 4 Rashomon 69
Act 3 The market economy in a rage 79
Scene 1 Market equilibrium and social dilemma 79
Scene 2 Market failure and widespread externalities 88
Scene 3 Epistemological consideration of perfect competition 99
Scene 4 Institutional consideration of perfect competition 110
Interlude 1 Clouds hanging over economics and game theory 121
Interlude 2 Game theoryin a crisis 127
Act 4 Decision making and Nash equilibrium 139
Scene 1 Recent topics 139
Scene 2 Interpretations of the Nash equilibrium 150
Scene 3 Infinite regress and common knowledge 161
Scene 4 Mixed strategies 174
Scene 5 Equilibrium as a stationary state 189
Act 5 The individual and society 195
Scene 1 Individualism 195
Scene 2 Ism 207
Scene 3 Connections between the individual and society 216
Scene 4 Internal mental structure of the individual 226
Epilogue 241
Acknowledgements 245
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