Game theoreticians weigh in on financial crisis
In November 2008 the Nobel laureate economist Robert Aumann spoke at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies and expressed concern about the faulty proposals to solve the financial crisis. His talk is now available on YouTube: In October 2008, another game theoretician and Nobel Prize winner, John Nash Jr. weighed in on the financial crisis [...]
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On his website, Robin Hanson discusses an unfilled niche in economics which he calls the “economics of science fiction” or “economics of future technology.” Another modern phrase would be “Singularity economics.” Hanson describes the economics of science fiction as the: “economic analysis of the sorts of assumptions typically explored in science fiction. It is distinguished [...]
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