Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81615 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 2008/16
Publisher: 
Turkish Economic Association, Ankara
Abstract: 
The expansion of markets –globalization– was reversed during early 20th century and unfettered markets gave in to the welfare state and central planning. But the markets have been striking back since the early 1980s. Governments are withdrawn from economic activities, and many structural market reforms are implemented. Now the question is: Can the forces that market expansion create again reverse this expansion? This paper seeks an answer to this question by constructing an evolutionary game theoretical framework in which market and “egalitarian” societies appear as evolutionarily stable states and shows that catastrophic events such as the Great Depression can indeed cause switch over between evolutionarily stable states.
Subjects: 
globalization
evolutionary game theory
evolutionarily stable states
behavioural strategies
JEL: 
B52
C73
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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