US Nobel Prize-winning economists announce joint statement to accuse Ramsay

-Two renowned American economists who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their game theory issued a statement criticizing Harvard professor Mark Ramsayer, who claimed that victims of Japanese military comfort women were “voluntary prostitutes”.

In a joint statement on the 28th (current period), “Game theory does not support Professor Ramsey’s argument,” said Alvin Ross, professor of business school at Harvard University and Paul Millgram, professor at Stanford University’s business school.

“We talked about Professor Ramsey’s thesis,” said the two professors. “It reminds me of Nazi Germany’s denial of the genocide of Jews, and in many ways it was too painful.”

The two professors then refuted head-on, saying, “Whether the historical interpretation is justified should be judged by the evidence,” and “the evidence cannot be overturned with a simple game theory model.” Prof. Ross co-winning the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2012 for cooperative game theory. Professor Milgrum co-winning the Nobel Prize in Economics last year for auction theory. Prof. Ramzier used game theory in a recently controversial paper to comfort women in the Japanese military. Asserted its justification. They say that private prostitutes who want to make a lot of money and women who want to work less have signed employment contracts to satisfy their respective interests.

However, there is intense criticism for explaining the comfort women issue with game theory, ignoring the historical background at the time.

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

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