caa a22 4500 388074450 CHVBK 20180307125157.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3857632 doi S1052150X00004231 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3857632 Solomon Robert C. Game Theory As A Model For Business And Business Ethics [Elektronische Daten] [Robert C. Solomon] Fifty years ago, two Princeton professors established game theory as an important new branch of applied mathematics. Game theory has become a celebrated discipline in its own right, and it now plays a prestigious role in many disciplines, including ethics, due in particular to the neo-Hobbesian thinking of David Gauthier and others. Now it is perched at the edge of business ethics. I believe that it is dangerous and demeaning. It makes us look the wrong way at business, reinforcing a destructive obsession with measurable outcomes and a false sense of competition. It falsely characterizes or insidiously advocates a style of human behavior that is utterly unacceptable. To put the matter quite crudely, a person who actually practiced the form of "rationality” advocated by game theory would be something of a monster. We should not ask for more precision than a subject is capable of giving us. — Aristotle, (384-322 B.C.E.) Nicomachean Ethics Bk. 1 Not that you won or lost—but how you played the game. — Grantland Rice (1880-1954) "Alumnus Football” Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1999 Business Ethics Quarterly Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-01), 11-29 1052-150X 9:1<11 1999 9 BEQ https://doi.org/10.2307/3857632 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3857632 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Solomon Robert C. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business Ethics Quarterly Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-01), 11-29 1052-150X 9:1<11 1999 9 BEQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge