New York Times on Scarcity

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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My reading of Mirowsky is that he argues that Nash
formulated the problem the way he did because he was
paranoid schizophrenic. I don't think Nash's paranoid
schizophrenic equilibrium is wrong. I just think it is
paranoid schizophrenic.

Sabri

^^^^^^
If we say that capitalism has mostly crazy ,socio-economic environments,
then in a way being crazy is a rational response to getting on in it. Maybe
his paranoia was  well founded generalized fear, and may be many of the
players of the bourgeois game in reality  ( not theoretically) have well
founded fears. Don't successful Americans have to have a knack for watching
their backs ? Don't they have to have the ability to change their
personalities on a dime , turn on others and stab them in the back, etc. -
socalled schizophrenia ?

Charles