000			01540cam a22002894a 4500
008			030421s2003 mau b 000 0 eng
020			_a1840648686
020			_a9781840648683
040			_aDLC _cDLC
050	0	0	_aHB87 _b.G56 2003
082	0	0	_a330.15'09'04 _bGIO
100	1		_aGiocoli, Nicola.
245	1	0	_aModeling rational agents : _bfrom interwar economics to early modern game theory /
260			_aNorthampton, Mass. : _bEdward Elgar Pub., _cc2003.
300			_ax, 464 p. ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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.
590			_arpm 15/11/2013
591			_aLoans
650		0	_aEconomics.
650		0	_aEconomists.
650		0	_aNeoclassical school of economics.
650		0	_aRational choice theory.
650		0	_aGame theory.
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
949			_a330.15'09'04 GIO
999			_c346 _d346