![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Comic novels of romance and social criticism - game-theory textbooks? Can Chwe sustain this argument? Unfortunately, the answer is no: while he asserts his claim, he doesn’t make much effort to argue for it in the pages of Jane Austen, Game Theorist. On its face, this is a bold and counter-intuitive claim. Austen’s novels are game theory textbooks.” And it’s this second, more ambitious agenda that he attributes to Austen, arguing that she “consciously intended to theorize strategic thinking in her novels. “Illustrating strategic thinking is one thing making it a central theoretical concern is altogether more ambitious,” he points out. Rather than trying to validate Austen by linking her to game theory, he is, if anything, doing the reverse: trying to counter critics who describe game theory as a soulless product of the Cold War by arguing that the field has humanistic roots.Īnd his claims about Austen’s use of strategic thinking – defined, more or less, as choosing how to act based on suppositions about how others will choose to act in response – go beyond the no-duh observation that her characters plan, scheme, and manipulate. ![]() Well, I’ve read the book, and he’s not guilty of these offenses against good sense. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |