[lbo-talk] neocon economists

Kelley the-squeeze at pulpculture.org
Sun Apr 20 18:21:57 PDT 2003


At 04:38 PM 4/20/03 -0400, Ted Winslow wrote:


>Michael Perelman wrote:
>
>>Mirowski's new book shows how some cold war social democrats came within
>>the ambit of RAND and the Pentagon.
>>
>>The neocons seem to revel in state power, not the shrivelled state that
>>Friedman and the conservatives want.
>
>It's "game theory" that's tied to the neo-cons isn't it? Herman Kahn via
>Andrew Marshall.

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/game.htm

Game Theory has emerged recently as a powerful challenger to the conventional method of examining economics. Although many illustrious predecessors worked on problems in what can be called "game theory", the fundamental, formal conception of game theory as part and parcel of economic theory were first organized in John von <../profiles/neumann.htm>Neumann and Oskar <../profiles/morgenst.htm>Morgenstern's 1944 classic, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944).

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