Abstract I give an informal presentation of the evolutionary game theoretic approach to conventions that constitute linguistic meaning. The aim is a philosophical interpretation project, which accounts for role mathematics in explaining phenomena. articulate main virtue this sort account, its psychological economy, and point casual mechanisms are ground application theory Lastly, consider objec...

More than 25 years after the discovery that the equilibrium point of a general equilibrium model is not necessarily either unique or stable, there is still a need for an intuitively comprehensible explanation of the reasons for this discovery. Recent accounts identify two causes of the ®nding of instability: the inherent di culties of aggregation, and the individualistic model of consumer beha...