Computable Economics
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About the Book
In the field of economic analysis, computability in the formation of economic hypotheses is seen as the way forward. In this book, Professor Velupillai implements a theoretical research program along these lines. Choice theory, learning rational expectations equlibria, the persistence of adaptive behaviour, arithmetical games, aspects of production theory, and economic dynamics are given recursion theoretic (i.e. computable) interpretations. These interpretations lead to new kinds of questions being posed by the economic theorist. In particular, recurison theoretic decision problems replace standard optimisation paradigms in economic analysis. Economic theoretic questions, posed recursion-theoretically, lead to answers that are ambiguous: undecidable choices, uncomputable learning processes, and algorithmically unplayable games become standard answers. Professor Velupillai argues that a recursion theoretic formalisation of economic analysisComputable Economicsmakes the subject intrinsically inductive and computational.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9780198295273
EAN: 9780198295273
Publisher Date: 16 Mar 2000
Height: 219.5 mm
LCCN: 99-24070
No of Pages: 240
PrintOnDemand: N
Spine Width: 20 mm
ISBN-10: 0198295278
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
Number of Items: 01
Series Title: English
Width: 141.25 mm