Economics and Language: Five Essays (Churchill Lectures in Economics) - Hardcover

Rubinstein, Ariel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521593069 ISBN 13: 9780521593069

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Written by one of the world's leading thinkers on game theory, this short book offers a challenging and accessible analysis of the relationship between economics and language. Essential reading for all social scientists.

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521593069
• ISBN 13: 9780521593069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 140