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Orit Halpern
Models, Markets, and Artificial Intelligence
A Brief History of our Speculative Present
Over the past four decades, the idea that both digital machines and human agents are networked intelligences and parts of self-organizing systems has not only shaped financial markets, but has also been incorporated into economic thinking and artificial intelligence. This has led to what Halpern calls the ‘financialization of cognition’, an economy of attention that reconfigures human agency and decision-making based on a model of contemporary finance and the digital economy.
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Models, Markets, and Artificial Intelligence
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A Brief History of our Speculative Present
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Orit Halpern
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Over the past four decades, the idea that both digital machines and human agents are networked intelligences and parts of self-organizing systems has not only shaped financial markets, but has also been incorporated into economic thinking and artificial intelligence. This has led to what Halpern calls the ‘financialization of cognition’, an economy of attention that reconfigures human agency and decision-making based on a model of contemporary finance and the digital economy.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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20 May 2025
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financial market
model
artificial intelligence
neoliberal economics
neural networks
machine learning
algorithm
Hayek, Friedrich
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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201
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215
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Breaking and Making Models, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel, Cultural Inquiry, 33 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 201–15
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