[국제]Nobel Prize Winners Joint Statement, Ramsay Criticism…”Game Theory Can’t Justify Distortion”

Two American economists who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their game theory issued a statement criticizing Harvard Professor Mark Ramsayer, who justified the recruitment of Japanese comfort women.

Stanford University Business School Professor Paul Milgram and Harvard Business School Professor Alvin Ross made a statement on the 28th local time and pointed out that “game theory cannot rationalize Professor Ramsey’s arguments.”

They emphasized, “Whether Professor Ramsey’s historical interpretation of the victims of Japanese military comfort women is justified will be judged by the evidence,” and emphasized that “the evidence cannot be reversed with a simple game theory model.”

The two professors introduced the fact that they shared their opinions on Professor Ramsey’s thesis and said, “It was very painful because it was associated with the denial of the genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany.”

Professor Milgram is a scholar who is recognized as an authority in various fields of economics, such as auction and incentive theory, industrial economics, economic history, and game theory.

Prof. Ross also co-winned the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research in the field of market design along with game theory.

Earlier, Harvard University economics professor Eric Maskin, who jointly won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for’Structural Design Theory’, a field of game theory, signed a criticism of Professor Ramsey for academics.

As Nobel Prize winners in Economics have repeatedly criticized Professor Ramsey, the logical loophole in the thesis on the’Gender Contract in the Pacific War’ published in the International Review of Legal Economics (IRLE) is expected to become more prominent.

In this paper, Professor Ramsey, who majored in law, rationalized the Japanese military comfort women contract using game theory of economics.

He said that prostitution on the battlefield was a rational contract that was concluded according to the demands of large advance payments by women in consideration of the risk of work and the possibility of damage to honor.

The Dutch publisher Elsevier, which publishes IRLE, is expected to publish a printed copy of Professor Ramsey’s thesis in the near future.

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