This book provides models of various economic and financial issues while using computational intelligence as a foundation. The scope of this volume comprises finance, economics, management, organizational theory and public policies. It explains the ongoing and novel research in this field, and...

This chapter proposes an alternative doctrine, christened as the meaning maximization doctrine, to the lifetime utility maximization doctrine. While the meaning of life is a familiar pursuit, given that modernity, to a great extent, is characterized by it, the formulation of our doctrine is...

In this paper a weighted index measure of money using the 'Divisia' formulation is constructed for the Taiwan economy and its inflation forecasting potential is compared with that of its traditional simple sum counterpart. This research extends an earlier study by Gazely and Binner by examining...