JSTOR research by Klein and Aaron Orsborn shows that economists historically used 'coordination' to mean concatenate coordination, but after Thomas Schelling and game theory the usage shifted to mutual coordination, with the efficiency/optimality paradigm simultaneously crowding out concatenate coordination because it could not engage it while remaining value-free.

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Speaker

Dan Klein

Evidence Quote

Aaron Orsborn and I have done JSTOR systemic JSTOR research to show that it used to be concatenate coordination that economists meant but then after Thomas Schelling in game theory its mutual coordination

Source

Dan Klein on Coordination and Cooperation 02/04/2008EconTalk
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