The unifying assumption of game theory is that two or more people are playing a

Sep 15, 2014
10:09:04am

ChinoCoug

game games (IIRC there is even a game that only one person plays). Games that apply to economics are a small subset of all games. Just because calculus was made to solve problems in physics does not mean calculus isn't pure math.

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Condi's Biography: Is there a substantial amount of IR theory in it?

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 12:53am

Hopefully not, as IR theory is a lot of hooey.

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 6:08am

The new game theory stuff is actually quite predictive. But her political

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 6:50am

True, but game theory is more economics than polisci

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 6:52am

It's more mathematics than econ. But you can use it for econ or polisci.

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 6:57am

It's based on standard economic assumptions

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 7:04am

No way man, von Neumann and Nash were mathematicians, not economists, and the

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 7:18am

And Nash won the Nobel Prize in economics

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 7:28am

You think that because all your game theory classes came from the econ dept.

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 7:37am

Um, whatever

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 7:52am

LOL. Philosophy encyclopedia entry. Yay.

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 8:14am

What rational actor is playing here?

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 8:35am

What was the name of von Neumann's and Morgenstern's book?

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 8:42am

Proves nothing. "Theory of Games and Animal Behavior" if there was a book

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 8:45am

You're talking in circles now

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 9:04am

Economics was the first of many applications. Bye!

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 9:29am

If it's not a pure mathematical theory, why do they teach it in pure mathematics

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 9:32am

About 1/4 of the game theory models we went over in my game theory class had

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 9:34am

Sigh

Freddie Cougar

9/15/14 9:50am

The unifying assumption of game theory is that two or more people are playing a

ChinoCoug

9/15/14 10:09am

That's not an assumption, that's just a feature of games

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