Economics and Language (1999) [10 citations — 0 self]
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author = {Ariel Rubinstein},
title = {Economics and Language},
year = {1999}
}
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Finally, I would like to acknowledge the financial support given me by the Israeli Science Foundation. I am also grateful to The Russell Sage Foundation and New York University, which hosted me during the period when much of the writing was completed. Chapter 0 Page 3 09/24/99 Chapter 0: Economics and Language The psychologist Joel Davitz once wrote: "I suspect that most research in the social sciences has roots somewhere in the personal life of the researcher, though these roots are rarely reported in published papers." (Davitz, 1976). The first part of this statement definitely applies to this book. Though I am involved in several fields of economics and game theory, all my academic research has been motivated by my childhood desire to understand the way that people argue. In high school, I wanted to study logic which I thought would be useful in political debates or in legal battles against evil once I fulfilled my dream of becoming a solicitor. Unfortunat
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| 11 | The Communication of Emotional Meaning – Davitz - 1964 |
| 3 | The Economics of Language – Marschak - 1965 |
| 1 | economic Approaches to Language and Language Planning: An Introduction – Grin - 1996 |
