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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 cont
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