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Economics and Language: Five Essays

By Ariel Rubinstein

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521789907, 9780521789905, 0521593069, 9780521593069, 9780511020643
Open Library ID
OL7747529M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
460 kB (471465 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
138\138
Topic
Economy
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 on 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.

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