Game Theory as Moral Alibi: A Coherence Audit of Selfishness, Fascism, and Stochastic Terror

Over half a century ago, economist John Kenneth Galbraith offered a sharp observation about modern conservatism: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness”.