Modern Logicians and Economic Methods

Applications of Methods of Operations Research and Modern Economic Theory

It is rather a pity that we received only three papers especially devoted to subject 2, "applications of methods of operations research and modern economic theory". Maybe the time for real applications of operations research techniques in the insurance field has still to come. However, I am convinhed that sooner or later such techn i q u e s i n connection with the use of the computor--wil l pl...

Modern Economic Theory and Development

The past 50 years have seen marked changes in our understanding of development. We know that development is possible, but not inevitable. We have had a wealth of experiments. There are clearly no surefire formulas for success; if there were, there would be more successes. Some strategies seem to work for a while and then stall; some strategies seem to work in some countries and not in others.1 ...

Logicians Who Reason About Themselves

By treating belief as a modality and combining this with problems about constant truth tel lers and constant l iars (knights and knaves) we obtain some curious epistemic counterparts of undecidability results in metamathematics. Godel's second theorem gets reflected in a logician who cannot believe in his own consistency without becoming inconsistent. Lob's theorem reflects i t se l f in a vari...

Three Logicians: Aristotle, Saccheri, Frege

Introduction to Modern Economic Growth

Na tržištu postoji veliki broj udžbenika iz teorije rasta. Razlikuje ih razina, tehnička zahtjevnost, opseg, središnja tema, vrsta kolegija kojem su namijenjeni i tako dalje. Postoji, dakle, obilje raznolikosti te svaki nastavnik može bez poteškoća na polici naći „svoj broj“. No svakih nekoliko godina pojavi se jedan posebni udžbenik. U pravilu su namijenjeni za nastavu na doktorskom i diplomsk...