The FINANCIAL — In the 1930s, the American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf put forward the hypothesis that people of different mother tongues perceive the world differently. According to linguistic ...

In the last 50 years, economic theory has come to be based almost solely on mathematics. This brings logical precision, but according to a new paper by SFI economist Brian Arthur, it restricts what ...

Why do we use words like “natural” in economics? Or what about the word “utility”? The answer can be traced all the way back to the 18th century. “It's really an encyclopedia,” said Matías Vernengo at ...

The Communication and Language Skills Program is a collaboration between English Language Programs and the School of Business and Economics. The program offers language support for all students ...

The Kazakhstani authorities have again brought up the issue of state language. Kazakh language has been heavily depreciated in the Soviet times against the background of inculcation of Russian ...

Based on theories from political economy and linguistics, the research argues that language has always been tied to labor. Communication enables coordination, production, and exchange. In AI systems, ...

To celebrate April Fools’ Day I’ve tried to have some fun in this newsletter, including in the choice of reader mail and the quote of the day. Everything’s true, though — no fooling. I’m fascinated by ...

Ariel Rubinstein is the Salzberg Chair professor of economics at Tel-Aviv University, where he has been teaching since 1990, and a professor of economics at Princeton University, where he has been ...