The Economics of Language

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Part 1 Theoretical approaches: economics of language, Jacob Marschak the economics of language and language planning, Francois Vaillancourt the distribution of foreign language skills as a game equilibrium, Reinhard Selten and Jonathan Pool towards a threshold theory of minority language survival, Francois Grin bilingualism and network externalities, Jeffrey Church and Ian King economic, statistical and linguistic factors affecting success on the test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL), Marcellus S. Snow culture and language, Edward P. Lazear. Part 2 Profits and wages: language as a limiting factor for centralization, Pavel Pelikan the foreign language needs of UK-based corporations, Nigel B.R. Reeves the foreign language needs of US-based corporations, Carol S. Fixman in the shadow - the impact of language on structure, power and communication in the multinational, Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari et al the endogeneity between language and earnings - international analyses, Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller. Part 3 English and pluralistic policies - the case of Australia, Joseph Lo Bianco socio-economic aspects of language policies - an Australian perspective, Mariel Tisdell. Part 4 Technology solutions: the world turned upside down - information technology and the linguistic constraint, Gordon B. Thompson the market for telephone interpreting services in Australia, Uldis Ozolins et al word perfected - can machines talk? from next month they will machine translation - matching reality to expectations, Joann P. Ryan will the Internet always speak English?, Geoffrey Nunberg. Part 5 Appendix: exploring the language and rhetoric of economics, Roger Backhouse et al.

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