RE: Re: Nash equilibrium's relevance

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I don't have time to finish this book within this decade, but Mirowsky's
MACHINE DREAMS is indeed excellent. It's very well written. It's interesting
that he contrasts neoclassical economics (which is anti-cyborg) and the
cyborgian orthodoxy. He's absolutely right that economists always quote that
Robbinsian self-definition of economics being about "allocation of scarce
resources among competing ends" -- and nowadays do all sorts of economics
that doesn't fit under that rubric.
JD

-----Original Message-----
From: michael perelman
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Sent: 4/11/02 8:07 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:24839] Re: Nash equilibrium's relevance

Again, Phil Mirowski's new book is excellent on this.

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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