03126nam 2200469 450 991055688570332120231110212622.09783030938857(electronic bk.)9783030938840(MiAaPQ)EBC6941322(Au-PeEL)EBL6941322(CKB)21435622000041(EXLCZ)992143562200004120221110d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhy and how humans trade, predict, aggregate, and innovate an economist's lessons on the role of human behavior and economic systems /Maurizio BoviCham, Switzerland :Springer,[2022]©20221 online resource (195 pages)Contributions to Economics Print version: Bovi, Maurizio Why and How Humans Trade, Predict, Aggregate, and Innovate Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030938840 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- 1: Prologue -- 1.1 Introducing the Four: Trading, Forecasting, Aggregating, Innovating -- 1.2 Behavioral Commonalities Behind the Four: Cooperation, Symbolic Language, Multifaceted Behavior, Adaptability -- 1.3 Background Commonalities Behind the Four: Economic Systems and Institutions -- 1.4 Common Traits of the Four: Goals, Instruments, Importance, Uniqueness, Immanence -- References -- 2: Trading: Humans Are Heterogeneous Animals -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Different Preferences -- 2.3 Different Human Capital, Information, and Propensity to Risk -- 2.4 Property Rights and Trading -- References -- 3: Forecasting: Humans Are Prone-to-Predicting Animals -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Forecasting Economic Subjects -- 3.3 Forecasting Economic Objects -- 3.4 Psychological Forecasting -- References -- 4: Aggregating: Humans Are Social Animals -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Family -- 4.3 The Productive Firm -- 4.4 Other Human Aggregations: Cities, Communities, and Nations -- References -- 5: Innovating: Humans Are Ingenious Animals -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Innovating: Importance, Sources, Measurement -- 5.3 Innovating, Entrepreneurs, and Economic Systems: The Schumpeter´s view -- 5.4 Innovating and Intellectual Property Rights -- References -- 6: Epilogue -- 6.1 The Four Are Connected and Can Reinforce Each Other: The Industrial Revolution -- 6.2 The Dark Side of the Four and How Humans Manage it -- 6.3 Speculating on the Future -- References.Contributions to Economics Economic anthropologyEconomicsSociological aspectsCongressesEconomic manEconomic anthropology.EconomicsSociological aspectsEconomic man.330Bovi Maurizio129171MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910556885703321Why and How Humans Trade, Predict, Aggregate, and Innovate2819527UNINA03588nam 22006253u 450 991097527600332120250513132043.00-7486-9507-90-7486-8333-X10.1515/978074868333810.3366/edinburgh/9780748683321.001.0001(CKB)3710000000087742(EBL)1630418(OCoLC)874157150(StDuBDS)EDZ0000237315(MiAaPQ)EBC1630418(DE-B1597)615765(DE-B1597)9780748683338(OCoLC)1291508870(EXLCZ)99371000000008774220151026d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAl-Jahiz In Praise of BooksEdinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (593 p.)Edinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7486-8332-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART 1 PHYSIOGNOMY OF AN APOCALYPTIC AGE ""; ""1.1 Cataclysm""; ""1.2 Eristics and Salvation""; ""1.3 A Self-chronicling Society""; ""PART 2 THE BOOK OF LIVING""; ""2.1 The Totalising Work""; ""2.2 The Treatise as Totality""; ""2.3 Parsing Totality""; ""2.4 The Articulation of The Book of Living""; ""2.5 Analogues?""; ""PART 3 THE JAHIZIAN LIBRARY UNDER ATTACK""; ""3.1 Introducing the â€?Introductionâ€?""; ""3.2 Translation""; ""3.3 Commentary""; ""3.4 The Argument ""; ""PART 4 THE SALVIFIC BOOK""; ""4.1 Biobibliographies""""4.2 The Form of the â€?Introductionâ€?""""4.3 The Enigma of the Addressee""; ""4.4 Invective""; ""4.5 The Cohesiveness of Society""; ""4.6 An Encyclopaedia to Save Society""; ""PART 5 THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIGN""; ""5.1 Governance of the Cosmos""; ""5.2 The Grateful Response, 1""; ""5.3 The Grateful Response, 2""; ""5.4 Obliquity""; ""Part 6 APPRECIATING DESIGN""; ""6.1 An Eristical Contest""; ""6.2 Translation""; ""6.3 The Argument""; ""6.4 Conclusion""; ""Postface""; ""Appendix: The Praise of Books ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellectEdinburgh studies in Classical Arabic literature.Arabic language -- LexicographyJāhiz, d. 868 or 9LiteratureIslamic EmpireIntellectual lifeArabic language -- Lexicography.Jāhiz, d. 868 or 9.Literature.800Montgomery James E(James Edward),1962-1818149AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELUkOxUBOOK9910975276003321Al-Jahiz4377162UNINA