This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books The World the Game Theorists Made by Paul Erickson and How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind by Paul Erickson, Judy...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest communicable disease. To circumvent surges of TB cases, several studies have been carried out analyzing the determinants of TB incidence and recommended policy measures based on the significant indicators. Although the determinants were...

This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books "The World the Game Theorists Made" by Paul Erickson and "How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind" by Paul Erickson,...

In the present paper, we shall consider the following impulsive delay system for modeling the price fluctuations in single-commodity markets:˙p(t) = F (p(t), p(t − h))p(t), t ̸= τk,p(t) = ϕ0(t), t ∈ [t0 − h, t0],Δp(t) = Ik(p(t)), t = τk, k ∈ Z.Sufficient conditions are established...

This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books The World the Game Theorists Made by Paul Erickson and How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind by Paul Erickson, Judy...

The marketing and sales polices of Iranian crude oil have been revised and changed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Production policy that drastically cut back production in order to maintain oil reserves for future generations. In terms of marketing Iranian crude oil, the new revolutionary...

Those using artificial intelligence (AI) in finance and other fields seek to meet or beat human intelligence by a chosen index of performance appropriate to each context. Efforts are focused on finding ways of increasing the intelligence of artificial agents through analysis, machine learning or...

On the basis of the First and second Law of Thermodynamics in the Economy and the Gibbs-Equation of Thermodynamics, Economic Equations are developed of the Inner Energy, the Entropy and the Free Energy (Value Added) of multiple economic systems to calculate the risks of investing in a merger and...

This essay seeks to develop an integrated account of the workings of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics as a theory of economic equilibrium. It begins with a probabilistic description of general systems (made out of numerous elements), based on the practice of statistical physics and the...