The Abstract Market
Where Abstract Algebra Meets Economics
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What is the Abstract Market?
The Abstract Market is a blog dedicated to exploring the relationship between abstract algebra and economics,
a place to connect formal reasoning with the logic of markets.
Each article in " The Abstract Market" takes a specific algebraic concept as groups or rings and ties it to an economic phenomenon to see what happens when we translate abstract objects into economic meaning.
The goal of the project isn’t to turn economics into mathematics but to leverage algebra as a reasoning tool : probably many of these essays may seem speculative , even like useless fantasies built on nothing.
But that’s the point: they are experiments in thinking and attempts to see what kind of meaning survives when we strip economics down to pure mathematical structure.
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About me
I'm Filippo , second year bachelor student at Bocconi University , majoring in Economics and Management.
Since I was young, I've been always faniscated by mathematics, especially by its abstract and logical side.
I still remember one afternoon in high school when I came across a paper on ring theory: I didn’t understand much of it, but something about it fascinated me deeply.
Even though I chose to study economics, that curiosity never really went away: with The Abstract Market, I’m trying to connect those two interests and to explore how ideas from abstract algebra can relate to economics.
It’s a small personal project, born from curiosity and from the desire to see what happens when two very different ways of understanding the world ,mathematics and economics , start to talk to each other.
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For any questions, or just to talk about ideas, feel free to reach out to me at filippo.bortolin3@gmail.com
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