The philosopher in John Harsanyi saw in game theory a means of improving the human condition.
The thinking dates back to the mid-19th Century, when the English philosopher, John Stewart Mill, postulated his theory of natural monopolies.
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In a somewhat cryptic footnote in A Theory of Justice, John Rawls suggested we may possess an analogous moral capacity that accounts for our competence in deploying moral rules.
When John Maynard Keynes formulated his general theory of government deficit spending as a counterbalance to lower private demand in times of economic slowdown, he probably did not assume that the government had already been running years of massive deficits with no end in sight leading to enormous accumulated debt relative to GDPs.
It all makes me think of British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who described the social theory of utilitarianism, which holds that one must always act so as to produce the greatest aggregate happiness for the greatest number of people.
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This research, published recently in Physical Review Letters, supports a theory put forward several years ago by John Abrahamson, a chemical engineer from the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand.
But the case is now being pursued on the same legal theory used to prosecute former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, who died last year while appealing his 2011 conviction in Germany for accessory to murder on the grounds that he served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp.
Seeking to bolster their theory of the crime, prosecutors turned to John Lentini, the fire expert, and John DeHaan, another leading investigator and textbook author.
It is a Monday, and John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, who has a theory about the sartorial tendencies of public school boys, seems somewhat peeved.
The simplest theory, for once, comes from longtime tech commentator John Dvorak.
Mr Harsanyi, who shared a Nobel prize in 1994 with two other economists in the same field, John Nash and Reinhard Selten, was happy to acknowledge that game theory had been around in some form for a long time.
When his speechwriter, Jon Favreau, who in 2004 wrote speeches for John Kerry, was interviewed for the job, Obama asked him what his theory of speechwriting was.
Although any sort of slowdown in America would reduce other countries' exports, John Calverley, the bank's chief economist, argues that this could in theory be offset by stronger domestic demand.
The scholar John Quiggin published "Zombie Economics" as a way to grab reader attention about the ill state of current economic theory.
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