Title:
Economic indeterminacy : A personal encounter with the economists' peculiar nemesis.
Author:
Varoufakis, Yanis.
ISBN:
9780415668491
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Series:
Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 174
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Economic indeterminacy and the dance of the meta-axioms: the dynamic mechanism by which neoclassical economics turns defeat at the hands of indeterminacy into unassailable dominance -- 2.Unity is strength: it is also the cause of indeterminacy regarding the wage and employment preferences of employers and trades unions -- 3.Rational conflict: on the impossibility of a determinate theory of costly disagreement -- 4.No bluffing please, we are economists! Why bluffs and other subversive acts preclude determinate game theoretical analyses -- 5.Bargaining by rules of thumb: when strategic indeterminacy forces the rational negotiator to fall back on myopic rules of thumb -- 6.Marxists and the sirens' song: when disgruntled Marxists reach for neoclassical economics' toolbox they get more than they bargained for -- 7.A theory of solidarity: why indeterminacy is a prerequisite for genuine solidarity --
Contents note continued: 8.On the power of what others think: how indeterminacy explodes when our preferences are influenced directly by other people's beliefs -- 9.The social foundations of corruption: on the indeterminate power of what others think -- 10.Evolving morals in the laboratory: the roots of distributional justice principles in indeterminacy -- 11.Evolving domination in the laboratory: the spontaneous creation of hierarchies and the patterned beliefs that support them -- 12.On the distinction between evolution and history: the impossibility of modelling behavioural mutations amongst political animals -- 13.Conclusion: dealing with indeterminacy on the stage of social life.