Jim D. wrote:
it's true that you didn't draw out the conclusions you had come to from all of the quotes from Mirowski. As far as I could tell, you were saying that because Nash was crazy, NE was wrong in some sense. I feel it's enough to think that NE is wrong due to other reasons.
I did say earlier, having attempted to demonstrate with argument what I take to be mistaken aspects of game theory, that:
Game theory is based on a mistaken understanding of "rationality," ignores the fact that social relations are internal relations, and ignores the role of irrationality in human thought and behaviour.
The psychology doesn't demonstrate these mistakes; it explains them. It explains, for instance, why a particular kind of mentality is largely immune to rational arguments demonstrating these mistakes.
I had understood you to be claiming that Nash's equilibrium concept was brilliant.
Einstein's Gedanken (sp?) experiments and Nash's brilliant insight come from non-neurotypical thinking.
I do think that Nash's equilibrium concept was brilliant.
Ted
