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Computable Foundations for Economics /
K. Vela Velupillai is probably the world's leading expert, and author of a number of key essays on, computable economics. His essays, brought together here for the first time have been revised and updated and set alongside significant new contributions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in experimental and computable economics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Computable Foundations for Economics; Copyright; Contents; Preface; General introduction; PART I Foundations; 1 The uncomputable, the nonconstructive and the undecidable in mathematical economics; 2 Advanced computational complexity theory from an elementary standpoint; 3 Economic dynamics and computation
- recursion theoretic foundations for the Icarus tradition; 4 Let's take the con out of mathematical economics; PART II General equilibrium theory; 5 Effectivity and constructivity in economic theory; 6 Algorithmic foundations of computable general equilibrium theory.
- 7 Uncomputability and undecidability in economic theoryPART III Methodology; 8 The unreasonable ineffectivity of mathematics in economics; 9 Aconstructive interpretation of Sraffa's mathematical economics; 10 The computable alternative in the formalization of economics: a counterfactual essay; PART IV Simon's behavioural economics: a computable vision; 11 Computable rationality, computation universality and adaptive behaviour; 12 Boundedly rational choice and satisficing decisions; 13 Arithmetic games, beavers and behavioural economics; Appendix 1 Artificing a rationally unbounded life.
- Appendix 2 The logic of discovery, problem solving and retroductionAppendix 3 Herbert Simon's letters regarding Computable Economics; PART V Inductive reflections; 14 De-mystifying induction, falsification and other Popperian extravaganzas; 15 Re-reading Jevons's Principles of Science
- induction redux; 16 Impossibility of effectively computable inductive policies in a complex dynamic economy; PART VI Concluding notes; 17 Epilogue
- a research program for the algorithmic social sciences; Author index; Subject index.