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Author Rubinstein, Ariel.

Title Economics and language : five essays / Ariel Rubinstein.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 128 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Churchill lectures in economic theory
Churchill lectures in economics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART 1 ECONOMICS OF LANGUAGE; PART 2 LANGUAGE OF ECONOMICS; PART 3 COMMENTS; INDEX.
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 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Economics -- Language.
Economics -- Language.
Economics.
Game theory.
Game theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rubinstein, Ariel. Economics and language. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521593069 (DLC) 00024480 (OCoLC)43499494
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