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2 Nasar, 71.
3 Fortune, March 1951.
4 Life, 25 February 1957.
5 Keynes, J. (1978), The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, eds. E. Johnson and D. Moggridge (Royal Economic Society), vol. 10, 173–4.
6 Letter to Morgenstern, 8 October 1947, explaining von Neumann’s refusal to review Paul Samuelson’s Foundations of Economic Analysis. Quoted in Morgenstern (1976), ‘The Collaboration between Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann on the Theory of Games’, Journal of Economic Literature, 14 (3), 810.
7 Morgenstern’s diary, April–May 1942. Quoted in Leonard, Robert J. (1995), ‘From Parlor Games to Social Science: Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory 1928–1944’, Journal of Economic Literature, 33 (2), 730.
8 Nasar, 94.
9 Ibid.
10 Quoted in Heims, S. (1980). John Von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death (Cambridge: MIT Press), 327.
11 Quoted in Poundstone, W. (1992), Prisoner’s Dilemma (New York: Anchor Books), 168.
12 Quoted in Ferguson, N. (2017), The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (London: Allen Lane), 260.
13 Hertzberg, H. (2001), ‘Comment: Tuesday, and After’, New Yorker, 24 September 2001, 27. Quoted in Amadae, S. (2003), Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 6.
14 Russell, B. (1959), Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (London: Allen and Unwin), 30.
15 Nasar, 242, 244.
16 Ibid., 379.
17 Goeree, J., and Holt, C. (1999), ‘Stochastic Game Theory’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 96, 10564–7.
18 Mirowski and Nik-Khah in D. Mackenzie, F. Muniesa and L. Siu (eds.) (2007), Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
19 Sadrieh, A. (2010), ‘Reinhard Selten a Wanderer’, in A. Ockenfels and A. Sadrieh (eds.), The Selten School of Behavioral Economics (Berlin, Springer-Verlag), 5.
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21 For a rigorous development of the argument sketched below see F. Guala (2006), ‘Has Game Theory been Refuted?’, Journal of Philosophy, 103, 239–63.
22 https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/30665.