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Economics and Language: Five Essays
Hardback
Main Details
| Title |
Economics and Language: Five Essays
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ariel Rubinstein
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| Series | Churchill Lectures in Economics |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:140 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 225,Width 144 |
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| Category/Genre | Sociolinguistics
Economic theory and philosophy |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521593069
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| Classifications | Dewey:330.014 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
14 September 2000 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
Author Biography
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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