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Economics and Language: Five Essays

by Ariel Rubinstein
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Overview

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.

Synopsis

A challenging and accessible analysis of the relationship between economics and language.

About the Author, Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and Princeton University. His recent publications include Modeling Bounded Rationality (1998), A Course in Game Theory (with M. Osborne, 1994) and Bargaining and Markets (with M. Osborne, 1990).

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Book Details

Published
January 1, 2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
136
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521789905

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