Economic indeterminacy : a personal encounter with the economists' peculiar nemesis /: a personal encounter with the economists' peculiar nemesis. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yanis Varoufakis.
• Other Names: Varoufakis, Yanis
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (392 pages), (37 illustrations)
• Subjects: 330.01; Economics; Economic policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135141356; 1135141355
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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