economics is toast we had a good run but its toast the spirit is gone from ushttps://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1270446931668500480 …
Do you mean the economics profession is a prisoners dilemma or economics the phenomenon? Pretty generally the latter doesn't hold and in fact most economic activity is based around mutual gain and going into econ has been pretty win/win historically
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The "economics" that is taught in mainstream schools is the ideology that gives us the prisoner's dilemma game theory belief. But that's the opposite of real economy, where collaboration is almost always ideal, since it leaves everyone better off: mutual gain, as you say.
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Game theory is interesting for sure (I loved it) but most of economic theory explicitly deals with the generation of prices and quantities in games that are very unlike PD. Also typically with so many actors that strategy is not super important regardless
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