game, set, theory

Ariel Rubinstein has made the full text of his five-essay collection, Economics and Language (Cambridge, 2000), available gratis & online.

Rubinstein is one of the most important game theorists around, period. This book is based on lectures he gave on the subject a few years back. It examines the economic (efficient) characteristics of language that may have brought it in to being in the first place.

Thanks to mackave for the link.