Game Theory: A Critical Introduction

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Business & Money

Yanis Varoufakis

Shaun P. Hargreaves-Heap

Economics

Routledge

Foundations of Mics : A Beginner's Companion

The book covers all the main economic concepts and addresses in detail three main areas: consumption and choice, production and markets and government and the State.

Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion

In recent years game theory has swept through all of the social sciences. Its practitioners have great designs for it, claiming that it offers an opportunity to unify the social sciences and that it it the natural foundation of a rational theory of society. Game Theory is for those who are intrigued but baffled by these claims, and daunted by the technical demands of most introductions to the subject. Requiring no more than simple arithmetic, the book: * Traces the origins of Game Theory and its philosophical premises * Looks at its implications for the theory of bargaining and social contract theory * Gives a detailed exposition of all of the major `games' including the famous `prisoner's dilemma' * Analyses cooperative, non cooperative, repeated, evolutionary and experimental games

Game Theory

Shaun Hargreaves-Heap

Stonemason 1ST Edition

Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World

Joseph Halevi

Nicholas Theocarakis

Adults In The Room

Penguin/Random House

A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality, liberty, democracy, and humanism.In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament. He was appointed finance minister and, in the whirlwind five months that followed, everything he had warned about -- the perils of the euro's faulty design, the European Union's shortsighted austerity policies, financialized crony capitalism, American complicity and rising authoritarianism -- was confirmed as the ''troika'' (the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, and European Commission) stonewalled his efforts to resolve Greece's economic crisis.Here, Varoufakis delivers a fresh look at the history of Europe's crisis and America's central role in it. He presents the ultimate case against austerity, proposing concrete policies for Europe that are necessary to address its crisis and avert contagion to America, China, and the rest of the world. With passionate, informative, and at times humorous prose, he warns that the implosion of an admittedly crisis-ridden and deeply irrational European monetary union should, and can, be avoided at all cost.

And The Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Vintage

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Technofeudalism

"So, here is how capitalism ended, Not with a revolutionary bang, but with an evolutionary whimper." Thus will begin my account of capitalism's demise and technofeudalism's emergence.\nCapitalism's demise began in 2008, as Wall Street's house of cards tumbled, until, aided by the pandemic and abetted by Big Tech, a new exploitative system took hold. This new system, technofeudalism, is our new, harsh realm. It is fascinating but also uniquely cruel. The technologies that support it are already mindboggling, as is the threat the new system poses to our liberty and, even, to our chances of survival as a species. Whether humanity manages to survive, let alone develop sustainably on a planet that is already rejecting us, will very much depend on our grasping the nature of this technofeudalism and finding ways to defang it.\nThe book's claim that capitalism is finished will, inevitably, prove hugely controversial. Commentators from the Right and the Left will laugh at it. Both sides have a vested interest in believing that we are witnessing a new variant of capitalism, not a transformation of capitalism into something distinct, something even worse. The Right, because they need to believe that capitalism is eternal and, ultimately, good - the natural system that humanity was primed for since the Garden of Eden. As for the Left, we leftists find it almost impossible to live with the idea that it was not we, the self-styled rational rebels, who overthrew capitalism in order to replace it with a functioning democratic socialism, but it was capitalism that overthrew itself - to bring on an even more exploitative system. The very notion that History bypassed us, plunges the Left into an existentialist angst which makes it hard to engage with reality.\nWhy does it matter whether capitalism begat technofeudalism or is going through one more of its many mutations? It matters for the same reasons it was crucial for late 18th century liberal reformists, anti-slavery campaigners etc. to grasp the importance of capitalism's blossoming within Without the realisation of capitalism's dynamic, and its capacity to transform everything, their efforts, struggles, policies and campaigns stood no chance. Similarly Understanding the nature and ways of technofeudalism matters because, if I am right, campaigns, struggles and policies like President Biden's Green New Deal, which had a chance to work ten or twenty years ago, cannot work under the technofeudal order that is now us over.

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