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Economics and Language

Economics and Language

Five Essays
Ariel Rubinstein, Tel-Aviv University
October 2000
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9780521789905
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    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.

    • Comprises five essays investigating both the economics of language and the language of economics
    • Original approach relating philosophy of language and linguistics to economic theory; encourages fundamental rethinking of underlying assumptions in economic theory and game theory
    • Includes Comments from two eminent economists and one logician

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    October 2000
    Paperback
    9780521789905
    138 pages
    216 × 140 × 8 mm
    0.17kg
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    Table of Contents

    • 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.
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    • Ariel Rubinstein , Tel-Aviv University

      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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