Overview
Insight in how an economist handles human cognition, by incorporating various concepts and schemes into game theory
Insight in how relevant cognition is in classical economics (e.g. financial speculation, job search, technological innovation)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
As a manifestation of a 'cognitive turn' observable in all social sciences, Cognitive Economics is concerned with the beliefs and mental operations held by actors placed within a dynamical and strategic environment. It appears as a synthesis of an educative research program, dealing with crossed expectations of actors, and an evolutionist research program on collective learning processes.
The book mainly aims at extending the framework of game theory in order to better fit the results of rapidly increasing laboratory experiments concerned with individual choices and collective interactions. It also seeks to better explain some original economic phenomena involving boundedly rational agents in an institutional setting such as financial bubbles, job search or technological innovation.
Written in an informal way, the book is addressed to philosophers or cognitive scientists curious of how economics deal with cognition, as well as graduate students in economics eager to discover how economic science evolves.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cognitive Economics
Authors: Bernard Walliser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71347-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71346-3Published: 12 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09050-9Published: 15 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71347-0Published: 25 October 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 185
Additional Information: Original French edition published by Odile Jacob, 2000
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences