Bibliograph

The economics and language, five essays, Ariel Rubinstein

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The economics and language, five essays, Ariel Rubinstein

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The economics and language

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

51525585

Responsibility statement

Ariel Rubinstein

Series statement

Churchill lectures in economicsCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

five essays

Summary

Arising out of the author's lifetime fascination with the links between the formal language of mathematical models and natural language, this short book comprises five essays investigating both the economics of language and the language of economics. Ariel Rubinstein touches the structure imposed on binary relations in daily language, the evolutionary development of the meaning of words, game-theoretical considerations of pragmatics, the language of economic agents and the rhetoric of game theory. These short essays are full of challenging ideas for social scientists that should help to encourage a fundamental rethinking of many of the underlying assumptions in economic theory and game theory. As a postscript two economists, Tilman Borgers (University College London) and Bart Lipman (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and a logician, Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information) offer comments.--, Provided by publisher

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Economics & Language

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