Economics and Language: Five Essays

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: Ariel Rubinstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/14/2000
Pages: 140
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.34h x 6.22w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780521593069

About the Author
Rubinstein, Ariel: - 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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