The Economic Philosophy of the Internet of Things

ISBN-13: 9781138478176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 246 str.

James Juniper

Opis

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 context for the construction and application of new, rigorous, and meaningful analytical tools. It develops a critical understanding of the digital economy grounded in a Post Cognitive framework; bridging disciplinary domains of cognitive science, theoretical computing, social theory and political economy, by grounding analysis in a philosophical framework.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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