Economics and Language  
  
A workshop organized by the the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation at the   
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia  
Madrid, June 15-17 (2006)  
  
Coordinators: Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University) & Jesus Zamora   
Bonilla (UNED)  
  
Can economists contribute to the study of language? Very often   
philosophers have questioned that instrumental rationality could account   
for the rational structure underlying our natural languages. Most   
linguists have simply ignored the economic approach. After the   
publication of Ariel Rubinstein's Economics and Language (CUP, 2000)   
there seems to be an opportunity to bridge all these gaps.  
  
Speakers: Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv), J. F. Alvarez (Madrid), Andreas   
Blume (Pittsburgh) Bruce Chapman (Toronto), Gerhard J�ger (Bielefeld),   
Fabi�n Muniesa (Paris), Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam)  
  
Contributed papers by: Asuncion Alvarez, David Austen-Smith +Timothy J.   
Feddersen, Manuel Bagues, Anton Benz, N. Goldschmidt + B. Szmrecsanyi,   
T. Honkela + V. Kononen + T. Lindh-Knuutila + M.S. Paukkeri, Kris De   
Jaegher, Maria Jimenez Buedo, Andrew Jorgensen, Raul Lopez-Perez, Ittay   
Nissan, Christina Pawlowitsch, Miguel Santa Olalla, Morgane Tanv�.  
  
Registration is free. For more information:  
http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/WinterWorkshop/2006.html  
  
David Teira