Economics and Language: Five Essays

by Ariel Rubinstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521789907
• ISBN13: 9780521789905
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"