tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post8671709867618901160..comments2024-03-25T07:51:47.758-04:00Comments on Thoughts On Economics: Writing Down Von Neumann's Contributions to Game TheoryRobert Vienneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748118392842775431noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-38485758016186621722007-09-26T10:48:00.000-04:002007-09-26T10:48:00.000-04:00It's possible I confused my economic columnists, i...It's possible I confused my economic columnists, in which case I apologize. This was an old column from 2001 or so and back then there weren't that many economic publicists which is why I probably made the mistaken attribution.YouNotSneaky!https://www.blogger.com/profile/06378267534638281151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-22383847156456258712007-09-26T05:08:00.000-04:002007-09-26T05:08:00.000-04:00Thanks for the comments.Thanks for the comments.Robert Vienneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14748118392842775431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-2303238845356534152007-09-25T22:30:00.000-04:002007-09-25T22:30:00.000-04:00That's because I never wrote a piece about "produc...That's because I never wrote a piece about "production with fixed coefficients" and how it has been "dis-proven". You must have me confused with someone else.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I stand by the game theory column. The non-cooperative game theory of the 2-person game analysis and the cooperative game theory analysis of the n-person games in vNM-M are quite different mathematically, despite vNM's valiant effort to tie them together.Hal Varianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08155715209126597113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-91841885640802665342007-09-25T19:26:00.000-04:002007-09-25T19:26:00.000-04:00This is really good but I think that if Varian jus...This is really good but I think that if Varian just qualified his statements by inserting "non-cooperative" in appropriate places he wouldn't be that far off. I dunno, I'm told that one should cut NY Times columnists some slack. Space constraints and all that.<BR/><BR/>Now the one where you could really slap him around is the one where he talks about "production with fixed coefficients" and how it has been "dis-proven" (in the context of Harrod-Domar) which I saw some time ago. I can't find it again though and I'm not even sure if it was NYT or some other place.YouNotSneaky!https://www.blogger.com/profile/06378267534638281151noreply@blogger.com