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Fourth reading session: Philip Mirowski (2007) Markets come to bits
YSI Reading Group Philosophy of Economics
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
YSI Presenters
Description
In the next reading session we will read a text from Philip Mirowski to explore the Ontology of Economics from a critical perspective.
The author raises various questions that will illuminate readers.
The third reading session is about the economic reality (what is) on the 8th of January at 21:00 CET.
Paper : Mirowski, P. (2007), Markets come to bits: Evolution, computation and markomata in economic science, Journal of Economic Behavior &Organization, 63: 2, pp. 209-242
Key words : Evolution of markets; Automata theory; Markomata; Complexity of markets; Evolutionary computational
economics
Link to the paper : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qPvbW39z0hpg336-wLqBWHrM4V1iKLZs
Besides, it is mandatory to read the paper, since the discussion will be specifically based on the paper of each reading session.
First 30 minutes we will discuss key points from the paper. Then, we will move on to elaborate, criticize or analyze the ideas stated and try to connect the reading to the overall picture of the reading group.
Please do join us if you are interested!
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Organizers
Attendees
Emma Achionye
Abiodun Adesina
Sudarshan Sharma
Rok Piletic
Phuoc Pham
Nurlan Lalayev
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