Re: [Marxism] The ultimatum game.

[Mehmet Cagatay <mehmetcagatayaydin@xxxxxxxxx>]

David wrote:

?Do you think this kind of experiment has power to expose the problematic 
with the capitalist assumptions about rational agent behaviour? To what 
extent does it have explanatory power, or is it just a random game??

.....

If we apply to Hegel, rationality is not a set of fixed formulas that
serve to calculate the existing order of things, but an equation contains
some variables and expresses the proportion between rationality and
actuality. I think this experiment indicates one thing at best: People
have a propensity to adjust their rationality to the texture of actuality.
Once an equation that provides a hinge for interaction, some people
attempt to revolutionize the actuality, some tries to prevent it, some
neglect to interfere in, etc. Also, these entire scuffle structures the
rationality. If we force the subjects of this experiment to play this game
10.000 times, but not for once and anonymously, we certainly reach very
different conclusions.       


Mehmet Çagatay
http://weblogmca.blogspot.com/

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