Game Theory: A Critical Introduction(pdf)

[Delenda Carthago]

http://filepost.com/files/856cdb12/0415094038_Game_Theo.pdf

Enjoy!

[Delenda Carthago]

Can we find anything about the subject from a revolutionary perspective?

[Die Neue Zeit]

I've written stuff before about maximax, maximin, minimax, and minimin, if that helps.

[Q]

Can't download it. Can it be put somewhere that doesn't throw popups or commercial crap at me?

[Delenda Carthago]

I've written stuff before about maximax, maximin, minimax, and minimin, if that helps.
Of course! Where can it be found?

[Delenda Carthago]

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[Die Neue Zeit]

Of course! Where can it be found?

http://www.revleft.com/vb/demands-state-power-t165523/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/begin-redefining-minimum-t133948/index.html

[Delenda Carthago]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/demands-state-power-t165523/index.html
http://www.revleft.com/vb/begin-redefining-minimum-t133948/index.html
Very good. Well done!:thumbup1:

[Mr. Natural]

Delenda Carthego, I couldn't get past the commercial chaos of the link you provided, and am anything but well-informed on game theory. However, I want to recommend what I believe is an important book.

The book is David Axelrod's Evolution of Cooperation (1984). Axelrod organized computer tournaments employing the Prisoner's Dilemma game that determined the best, natural "formula" for human cooperation. These tournaments established that bottom-up, interpersonal reciprocity worked much better than top-down authority. Reciprocity was the key, and the Tit For Tat computerized approach won 17 of 18 games and came in second the other time.

Axelrod noted the "importance of long-term interaction for the stability of cooperation." He then concluded, "Mutual cooperation can emerge in a world of egoists without central control by starting with a cluster of individuals who rely on reciprocity." For that matter, democracy and communism rely on reciprocity: "Only in community [with others has each] individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible." (Marx, German Ideology)

Axelrod's one contribution was this book. He wrote two more rehashing his first, and became your typical academic cold warrior at the Ford Foundation, I believe. Nonetheless, I believe The Evolution of Cooperation holds important lessons for comrades attempting to organize selves and others, and for the anarchist/communist relations we will be establishing in the future.

My red-green best to you and the struggling Greek people.