The Limits to Certainty: 4 - Rilegato

Giarini, Orio; Stahel, Walter R.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0792321677 ISBN 13: 9780792321675

Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Pub, 1993

Riassunto

I consider it a privilege to have been invited to write a preface for "The Limits to Certainty". It is however paradoxical that a theo­ retical physicist be asked to write about a monograph dealing mainly with service economics. Notwithstanding, I am delighted to do so. Indeed, it is striking that two so widely different fields like physics and social science, and more especially economics, can interact in such a constructive way. There is no question here of reductionism. Nobody claims to be able to reduce social scien­ ces to physics, nor to use patterns of social interaction in order to formulate new laws for atoms. What is at stake here is more im­ portant than reduction; the age-old separation between the so-cal­ led "hard" and "soft sciences" is breaking down. This separation has a long history. First, one should recall the influence of Newton's achievement on the formulation of scienti­ fic goals. This influence led to the formulation of equilibrium mo­ dels for supply/demand adjustment. As was noticed by Walter Weisskopf: "the Newtonian paradigm underlying classical and non-classical economics interpreted the economy according to the patterns developed in classical physics and mechanics, in analogy to the planetary system, to a machine or clockwork: a closed auto­ nomous system ruled by endogenous factors of a highly selective nature, self-regulating and moving to a determinate, predictable point of equilibrium" (The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (1984), Vol. 9, no. 33, pp. 335-360).

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Contenuti

Preface; Ilya Prigogine. Foreword; Alexander King. List of Figures. 1. Introduction. 2. The New Battleground for Risk-Taking: the Service Economy. 3. Facing Social Uncertainty: Towards a New Social Policy in the Service Economy. 4. Producing the Wealth of Nations; the Risk Takers and the Supply Side of the Economy. The Dynamics of Disequilibrium. 5. At the Roots of Uncertainty. Bibliography. Index.

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Book by Giarini O Stahel WR

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kluwer Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792321677
• ISBN 13: 9780792321675
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 300
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