Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 10:27:29 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: M-I: PD


Justin Schwartz wrote:

>Doug suggests that the insights of game theory can be expressed in
>English. He doesn't quite get the prisoner's dilemma right, which exposes
>some of the pitfalls of trying to do this.

Justin, I hate to waste one of my posting quota on this, but your
patronizing tone is very annoying, and you don't represent what I said
right, either. I was not expressing the prisoner's dilemma in my plain
English paraphrase. You had said game theory was an enlightening way of
modeling the social/psychological hindrances to working class organization.
I said you don't need the whole theoretical apparatus to make that point,
which I then did in a sentence of few clauses using words of few syllables.


Doug

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