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Modeling rational agents : from interwar economics to early modern game theory /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., c2003.Description: x, 464 pISBN:
  • 1840648686
  • 9781840648683
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.15'09'04 GIO
LOC classification:
  • HB87 .G56 2003
Summary: The book explores the evolution, through the first half of the 20th century, of the key neoclassical concepts of rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of perfect foresight and analyses the first game-theorist solution concepts of von Neumann and Nash. The author's proposition is that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consisteny. Such a transformation paralleled that of neoclassical economics as a whole from a discipline dealing with real economic processes to one investigating issues of local consistency between mathematical relationships.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The book explores the evolution, through the first half of the 20th century, of the key neoclassical concepts of rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of perfect foresight and analyses the first game-theorist solution concepts of von Neumann and Nash. The author's proposition is that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consisteny. Such a transformation paralleled that of neoclassical economics as a whole from a discipline dealing with real economic processes to one investigating issues of local consistency between mathematical relationships.

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