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Index
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Cyborg Agonistes
Rooms with a View
Where the Cyborgs Are
The Natural Sciences and the History of Economics
Anatomy of a Cyborg
Attack of the Cyborgs
The New Automaton Theatre
2. Some Cyborg Genealogies; or, How the Demon Got Its Bots
The Little Engines That Could’ve
Adventures of a Red-Hot Demon
Demons Who Came in from the Code: Cybernetics
The Devil That Made Us Do It
The Advent of Complexity
3. John von Neumann and the Cyborg Incursion into Economics
Economics at One Remove
Phase One: Purity
Phase Two: Impurity
Phase Three: Worldliness
4. The Military, the Scientists, and the Revised Rules of the Game
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Ruddled and Bushwhacked: The Cyborg Character of Science Mobilization in World War II
Operations Research: Blipkrieg
The Ballad of Hotelling and Schultz
SRG, RAND, Rad Lab
5. Do Cyborgs Dream of Efficient Markets?
From Red Vienna to Computopia
The Goals of Cowles, and Red Afterglows: Getting in Line with the Program
Every Man His Own Stat Package: Cowles Unrepentant, Unrecursive, and Unrecusant
On the Impossibility of a Democratic Computer
6. The Empire Strikes Back
Previews of Cunning Abstractions
It’s a World Eat World Dog: Game Theory at RAND
The High Cost of Information in Postwar Neoclassical Theory
Rigor Mortis in the First Casualty of War
Does the Rational Actor Compute?
Soliloquy
7. Core Wars
Inhuman, All Too Inhuman
Herbert Simon: Simulacra versus Automata
Showdown at the OR Corral
Send in the Clones
8. Machines Who Think versus Machines That Sell
Where Is the Computer Taking Us?
Five Alternative Scenarios for the Future of Computational Economics
The Hayek Hypothesis and Experimental Economics
Gode and Sunder Go Roboshopping
Contingency, Irony, and Computation
Appendix 8.1: Double Auction and Sealed Bid Encoded onto Automata
Appendix 8.2: Sealed-Bid Auction with Accumulation Rule
Envoi
References
Index
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