Counterfactuals in Wonderland

Dov Samet
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Dov Samet: Faculty of Management Tel Aviv University

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Abstract: The literary source of the main ideas in Aumann's article ``Backward Induction and Common Knowledge of Rationality" is exposed and analyzed. The primordial archetypal images that underlie both this literary source and Aumann's work are delineated and are used to explain the great emotive impact that this work had on the community of game theorists.

Keywords: counterfactuals; backward induction; rationality; archetypes; Easter eggs; post modernism; Snark (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997-03-11
Note: Type of Document - postscript; pages: 7. Also posted in newsgroup rec.dont.be.too.serious

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