On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Life on Earth: In Search of the Unity of Nature & Evolutionary Stable Strategy

Funk, Matt (2008): On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Life on Earth: In Search of the Unity of Nature & Evolutionary Stable Strategy.

Abstract

This paper tables axioms which model The Problem of Sustainable Economic Development (i.e., The Tragedy of the Commons), a theoretical framework which, reductio ad absurdum, falsifies many widely-held economic, evolutionary, and ecological principles, including the central thesis of ‘ecological economics’. This brief communiqué lays the foundation for evolutionary stable economic development strategy, and, thus, fosters global threat mitigation, international cooperation, food security, national security, long-distance dispersibility, and thus, ultimately, the long-term survival of the human species.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Human survival; sustainable economic development; noncooperative games; natural selection; asteroid impact; global warming; warfighting; super-eruptions; solar flux; ohmic decay; industrial agriculture; land degradation; global threat mitigation; food security; national security; long-distance dispersal; evolutionary stable strategy
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q50 - General; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C72 - Noncooperative Games

References

1. Hayek F (1952) The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology (Univ of Chicago Press, Chicago).

2. Wallace A (1855) On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species. Ann of Nat History 16:184-195.

3. Oppenheimer R (1955) The Open Mind (Simon & Schuster, New York).

4. Huxley A (1962) Epigraph to Island (Chatto & Windus, London).

5. Funk M (2009) On the Truly Noncooperative Game of Island Life: Introducing a Unified Theory of Value & Evolutionary Stable ‘Island’ Economic Development Strategy. An open letter to the Fellows of the Linnean Society of London http://files.me.com/mattfunk/n90gzv

6. Wilson E (2002) The Future of Life (Little, Brown, London).

7. Nasar S (1998) A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash (Simon & Schuster, New York).

8. Bailey R (2002) The Rise and Eventual Fall of Ideological Environmentalism. Introduction to: Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths (Random House, New York).

9. Hayek F (1944) The Road to Serfdom (Routledge, New York).

10. Hawking S (2008) Stephen hawking: Asking Big Questions About the Universe (TED, New York).

11. Clark W (2007) Sustainability Science: A room of its own. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:1737-1738.

12. Nash J (1953) Two-Person Cooperative Games. Econometrica 21:128-140.

13. Popper K (1992) In Search of a Better World (Routledge, London).

14. Fisher R (1930) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (Dover, New York).

15. Smith A (1776) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Strahan & Cadell, London).

16. Darwin C (1871) The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (Murray, London).

17. Aumann R (2006) War and Peace. Nobel Memorial Lecture, 8 December 2005. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:17075–17078.

18. Renatus F (390) De Re Militari (Griffin, London).

19. Graham B, et al., (2008) World at Risk (Random House, New York).

20. Zhang D, et al., (2007) Global Climate Change, War, and Population Decline in Recent Human History. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:19214-19219.

21. Treverton G, Jones S (2005) Measuring National Power (RAND, Santa Monica).

22. National Intelligence Council (2008) Global Trends 2025 (US Printing Office, Washington).

23. Corning P (2000) Biological Adaptation in Human Societies. J Bioecon 2:41-86.

24. Leggett M (2006) An Indicative Costed Plan for the Mitigation of Global Risks. Futures 38:778-809.

25. Wisdom J (1985) Meteorites may follow a chaotic route to Earth. Nature 315:731-733

26. Tate J (2000) Avoiding Collisions. Space Policy 16:261-265.

27. Rampino M (2002) Supereruptions as a Threat to Civilizations on Earth-like Planets. Icarus 156:562-569.

28. Laskar J (1990) The Chaotic Motion of the Solar System. Icarus 88:266-291.

29. Wisdom J (1987) Chaotic Behaviour in the Solar System. Proc R Soc Lond A 413:109-129.

30. Kuang W, Bloxham J (1997) A numerical dynamo model in an Earth-like dynamical regime. Nature 389:371–374.

31. Moss B (2007) Water pollution by agriculture. Phil Tans R Soc B 363:659-666.

32. Kremen C, et al. (2002) Crop pollination from native bees at risk from agricultural intensification. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99:16812-16816.

33. Winfree R, Kremen C (2008) Are ecosystem services stabilized by differences among species? Phil Tans R Soc B 276:229-237.

34. Jarvis D, et al. (2008) A global perspective of the richness and evenness of traditional crop-variety diversity maintained by farming communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:5326-5531.

35. Seabrook J (2007) Sowing for Apocalypse: The quest for a global seed bank. New Yorker 27 August:60-71.

36. Smith J, et al. (2009) Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the IPCC “reasons for concern.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:4133-4137.

37. Hume D (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature: Being An Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects(Noon, London).

38. Popper K (1959) The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge, London).

39. Popper K (1999) All Life is Problem Solving (Routledge, London).

40. Popper K (1962) Conjectures and Refutations (Routledge, London).

41. Popper K (1983) Realism and the Aim of Science (Routledge, London).

42. Cournot A (1838) Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth (Macmillan, London).

43. Hayek F (1945) The Use of Knowledge in Society. The Amer Econ Rev 35:519-530.

44. Einstein A (1954) Ideas and Opinions (Crown, New York).

45. Funk M (2009) On the Problem of the Island of Earth: Introducing a Universal Theory of Value in an Open Letter to The President of the United States. Univ of Munich Archives 14489:1-66 (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14489/).

46. Tucker A (1950) A Two*Person Dilemma (Public Domain, Stanford).

47. Ignatieff M (2004) Political Ethics in the Age of Terror (Princeton Univ Press, Princeton).

48. Maynard Smith J (1982) Evolution and the Theory of Games (Cambridge University, New York).

49. Funk C, et. al. (2008) Warming of the Indian Ocean threatens eastern and southern African food security but could be mitigated by agricultural development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:11081-11086.

50. Feynman R (1994) Six Easy Pieces (Helix, New York).

51. Popper K (1974) Unended Quest. 2002 Ed (Routledge, London).

52. Strachan J, Vigilance C, eds. (2008) Sustainable Development in SIDS (Commonwealth Secretariat, London).

53. Ehrlich P, Ehrlich A (2008) Nature’s Economy and the Human Economy. Environ Resource Econ 39:9-16.

54. Hardy G (1940) A Mathematician’s Apology (Cambridge Univ Press, London).

55. Delingpole J (2009) Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn’t Work (Regnery, Washington).

56. DoD (2004) FM 21-76 (Department of Defense, Washington).

57. Nash J (1950) NON-COOPERATIVE GAMES. PhD thesis. (Princeton Univ, Princeton).

58. Kuhn H, et al. (1994) The Work of John Nash in Game Theory (Nobel Foundation, Stockholm).

59. Holt C, Roth A (2004) The Nash equilibrium: A perspective. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:3999-4000.

60. Harsanyi G (1994) Games with Incomplete Information (Nobel Foundation, Stockholm).

61. Soulé M (1987) Viable Populations for Conservation (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge).

62. Darwin C, Wallace A (1858) The Darwin-Wallace Paper. Proc Linn Soc 3:45-62.

63. Darwin C (1859) On the Origin of Species (Murray, London).

64. Malthus T (1798) An Essay on the Principle of Population (Johnson, London).

65. Gould S (2002) The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge).

66. Ehrlich P (1968) The Population Bomb (Ballentine, New York).

67. Hardin G (1968) The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162:1243-1248.

68. Easterling W (2007) Climate change and the adequacy of food and timber in the 21st century. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:19679.

69. Lane N (2007) Mass extinctions. Nature 448:122-125.

70. Dobzhansky T (1964) Biology, Molecular and Organismic. Amer Zool 4:443-452.

71. Keynes J (1920) The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Harcourt, Brace, & Howe).

72. Angier B (1956) Living Off the Country: How to Stay Alive in the Woods (Stackpole Co., Harrisburg).

73. Desha S (1922) Kamehameha and his Warrior Kekuhaupi'o (Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu).

74. Diamond J (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Norton, New York).

75. Gates B (1998) Bill Gates on Jared Diamond: Laying A Foundation For Human History (Microsoft, Redmond).

76. Mayr E (2004) What Makes Biology Unique (Cambridge Univ Press, New York).

77. Helferich G (2004) Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey that Changed the Way We See the World (Gotham, New York).

78. Schabas M (2005) The Natural Origins of Economics. 2007 Ed (Univ of Chicago, Chicago).

79. Sokal A (1996) Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity Social Text 46:217-252.

80. Sokal A (1996) A Plea for Reason, Evidence and Logic. New Politics 6:126-129.

81. Sokal A (1996) A Physicist Experiments with Cultural studies (NYU, New York).

82. Sokal A (1996) Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword. Dissent 43:93-99.

83. Sokal A (2008) Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy, and Culture (Oxford Univ Press, New York).

84. Shaw, G (1903) Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists (The University Press, Cambridge).

85. Hayek F (1989) The Pretense of Knowledge. Nobel Memorial Lecture, December 11, 1974. The Amer Econ Rev 79:3-7.

86. Taleb N (2001) Fooled by Randomness (Texere, New York).

87. Hardin G (1998) Extensions of ‘The Tragedy of the Commons.’ Science 280:682-683.

88. Taagepera R (1993) Estonia: Return to Independence (Westview Press, Boulder).

89. Steele G (2002) Hayek’s Sensory Order Theory & Psychology 12.

90. Associated Press (2009) Obama: Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for outburst. 15 September 2009.

91. Hayek F, et. al., (1991) The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History (Univ of Chicago Press, Chicago).

92. Vanity Fair (2007) Leo and the Bear: A behind-the-scenes look at the Iceland and Berlin cover shoots for Vanity Fair’s second Green Issue. (web exclusive) 2 April 2007.

93. Saunders, T (2009) Hugh Jackman Turns Eco-Hero For Climate Week NYC. Look To The Stars 22 September 2009.

94. Hawking S, et al., (2002) On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Worlds of Physics and Astronomy (Running Press, Philadelphia).

95. Jarvis D, et al., eds. (2002) The Economics of Conserving Agricultural Biodiversity on-Farm: Research methods developed from IPGRI’s Global Project ‘Strengthening the Scientific Basis of In Situ Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity’ (IPGRI, Rome).

96. Mayr, E (2001) Philosophical Foundations of Darwinism. Proc of the Amer Phil Soc 145:488-495.

97. Story J (1840) A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States. 1997 Ed (Regency Gateway, Lake Bluff).

98. Funk M (2005) The Song of the Dragonfly. Unpubl. MS:1-238. http://files.me.com/mattfunk/z53g1t

99. Rand A (1957) Atlas Shrugged (Random House, New York).

100. Stigler G (1982) The Process and Progress of Economics. J of Pol Econ 91:529-545.

101. Russell (1938) Power: A New Social Analysis (Allen & Unwin, London).

102. Avise J, et al. (2008) In the light of evolution II: Biodiversity and extinction. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105(Suppl):11453-11457.

103. Dobzhansky T (1973) Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution. Amer Biol Teacher 35:125-129.

104. ARC (2009) 7th Annual Global ARC. 19 – 21 October 2009, Hyatt Regency Boston, Massachusetts, USA (ARC, Boston).

105. Funk M (2008) On the Problem of the Hedgeless Hedgefunds of Sleepy Hollow: An Evolutionary Stable Solution in an Open Letter to Kenneth Griffin. Univ of Munich Archives (http://mpra.ub.unimuenchen.de/14487/) 14487:1-13.

106. Doughart J (2009). First Assignment. Global Issues 151, Univ Prince Edward Island. Dated 17 September 2009. Unpubl.

107. Russell B (1928) Sceptical Essays (Allen & Unwin, London).

108. Miller H (1957) The Books in My Life (New Directions, New York).

109. Llobera M, Sluckin T (2007) Zigzaging: theoretical insights on climbing strategies J of Theo Biology 249:206-217.

110. Darwin C (1858) Letter to Asa Gray of Boston, mailed from Down, September 5th, 1857. Proc Linn Soc 3:45-62.

111. Case J (2002) Evidence of a Rare Imagination: The Essential John Nash SIAM 35:1-1.

112. Isaacson W (2007) The World Needs More Rebels Like Einstein. Wired 15:4.