Economic Philosophy of the Internet of Things

This book contends that neoclassical approaches to modelling economic behaviour based on optimal control by "representative-agents" are ill-suited to a world typified by concurrency, decentralized control, and interaction. It argues for the development of new, process-based approaches to analysis, modelling and simulation and provides the cont

List of contents

Introduction: Post-Cognitivism and the Digital Economy; Chapter One: Transcendental Empiricism: From Schelling to Benjamin and Bloch; Chapter Two: Bourdieu and Structuralism; Chapter Three: ‘Co-Creation’ in the Creative Industries: a New Neoliberal Technology of Self?; Chapter Four: Neoliberalism, ‘Digitization’, and Creativity: the Issue of Applied Ontology; Chapter Five: Ubiquitous Computing Systems and the Digital Economy; Chapter Six: The Use of Diagrammatic Reasoning in Teaching Economics for the Digital Economy; Chapter Seven: Category-theoretic Approaches to Semantic Technologies; Technical Appendix: Category Theory and Sematic Technology; Chapter Eight: Conclusion; Glossary

About the author

James Juniper is a lecturer at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

Summary

This book contends that neoclassical approaches to modelling economic behaviour based on optimal control by "representative-agents" are ill-suited to a world typified by concurrency, decentralized control, and interaction. It argues for the development of new, process-based approaches to analysis, modelling and simulation and provides the cont

Product details

• Authors: James Juniper, James (University of Newcastle Juniper
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780367589479
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58947-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Economics of Innovation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Knowledge Capital, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Research & development management, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Economic theory and philosophy, Research and development management