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Five EssaysTHE CHURCHILL LECTURES IN ECONOMIC THEORY Economics and Language Five Essays
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@MISC{Rubinstein_fiveessaysthe,
author = {Ariel Rubinstein and Ariel Rubinstein and Rubinstein Ariel},
title = {Five EssaysTHE CHURCHILL LECTURES IN ECONOMIC THEORY Economics and Language Five Essays},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
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. A postscript contains comments by a logician, Johan van Benthem (University of
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