Economics and Language
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780521593069
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Mathematics; Language; Economics (General); Business & Economics; Sociology; Business/Economics; Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; Economics - General; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics-Economics - General; Economics--Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Sociolinguistics; Economics; Probability & Statistics - General; Game Theory
First sentence: 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).
Description: "This 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.