Economic Fables
I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model.
Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at...
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Place of publication: Cambridge
Published on OpenEdition Books: December 20, 2012
Digital ISBN: 978-1-906924-79-9
Series: OBP collection
Year of publication: 2012
ISBN (Print version): 978-1-906924-77-5
Number of pages: 255
I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model.
Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and entertaining reflections on his childhood, family and career. In doing so, he challenges many of the central tenets of game theory, and sheds light on the role economics can play in society at large. The book is as thought-provoking for seasoned economists as it is enlightening for newcomers to the field.
Ariel Rubinstein is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and New York University. His books include Bargaining and Markets (with Martin J. Osborne, 1990), A Course in Game Theory (with Martin J. Osborne, 1994), Modeling Bounded Rationality (1998), Economics and Language (2000) and Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent (2005). He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow and former President of the Econometric Society.
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