Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: McArthur grantee

[Doug Henwood]

Rod Hay wrote:

>I don't understand the antagonism to game theory. It is a logical technique--a
>tool that can be used to focus the mind on strategic decisions. It has the
>weakness that it can only practically discuss the interaction of two people,
>but surely there is nothing inherent in it that would bring out this scorn.

There's something horrifyingly banal and fetishized about it, a 
bloodless and asocial representation of human behavior. It gives me 
the creeps, viscerally.

Doug