Game Theory
Game theory has Austrian roots—Oskar Morgenstern was Mises's doctoral student—but the way it's taught leads almost everywhere to the same conclusion: individuals left alone reach bad outcomes, so the state must intervene. Lucas Engelhardt argues the reasoning has a hole in it. Standard analysis treats the game as fixed, when real people are entrepreneurial: alert to opportunity, able to see a bad equilibrium coming and restructure the payoffs before it arrives. Working through the tragedy of the commons, public goods, tariffs, and Huerta de Soto's account of why bankers lobbied for a central…
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