
Economics and Language
Five Essays
Ariel Rubinstein(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 14. September 2000
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-0-521-59306-9 (ISBN)
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 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-59306-9 (9780521593069)
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Person
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).
Content
Part I. Economics of Language: 1. Choosing semantic properties of language; 2. Evolution gives meaning to language; 3. Strategic considerations in pragmatics; Part II. Language of Economics: 4. Decision making and language; 5. On the rhetoric of game theory; Part III. Comments Johan van Benthem, Tilman Borgers and Barton Lipman.