[lbo-talk] BBC2 documentary on capitalism, game theory, greed, altruism

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Mar 13 08:45:57 PDT 2007


B:

"The Trap," a new 3-part documentary on BBC2 about capitalism, altruism, & assumptions that underly mainstream economics, among other things, started March 11. I don't get BBC2 so I hope someone makes it available via chomskytorrents.org.

There's a decent-looking Wikipedia entry on the documentary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_%28television_documentary_series%29

[WS:] Actually, altruism is a pretty dangerous thing for the rat-choice utility maximization model. Its existence undermines the logical sufficiency its core assumption to explain human behavior. Please see my piece in _Voluntas_ for more: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w52027l3h21205w7/fulltext.pdf

Wojtek



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