Computability, Complexity and Constructivity in Economic AnalysisISBN: 978-1-4051-3078-3
Paperback
336 pages
May 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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'Economists should be vitally interested in the computational
possibilities of two classes of agents: the actors in their models
and themselves. There is a branch of mathematics that tells you
what can be calculated and what cannot be calculated, even in
principle. Economists should be interested in this branch of
mathematics and rushing out in great numbers to learn all about it,
yet most economists have ignored computability, constructivity, and
related branches of mathematics and probability theory. K. Vela
Velupillai’s welcome and important volume helps greatly by
giving us a serious introduction to this field, one that is geared
to the interests of economists.'
Roger Koppl, Fairleigh Dickinson University (from Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization review, 2007)