Neoliberal Perspective

Have you met this person? Preaching that;

Coercive bargaining, good.

Commodification of all goods, good.

Using sanctions as a bargaining chip.

Cheating and free riding, rational.

Use of information and language are purely signaling devices.

All agents must comply (price for resisting either bankruptcy or failing to survive).

Acting selfishly may appear rational from an individual’s perspective, yet it ultimately yields a suboptimal outcome for the collective.

Conflict is used to explain real-world things like arms races, price wars, climate cooperation, and even everyday trust decisions.

Nothing exists in a vacuum; pick up a book, read, question authority, ask why.

Prisoners of Reason (Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy) by S. M. Amadae