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Table of contents (19 papers)
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Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions — Introduction and Overview
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Institutions and Cognition
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Rationality and Institutions
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About this book
Institutions are rules that are supported by various enforcement mechanisms. Cognition refers to the process of how men perceive and process information, whereas rationality refers to how these processes are modelled. Within institutional economics there is a growing scepticism towards extending the conventional economic frame of analysis to institutions. In particular, the notion of perfect rationality is increasingly questioned. At the same time human cognition has become a major field of research in psychology. This book explores what institutional economics can learn from cognitive psychology regarding the proper modelling of rationality in order to explain institutional change.
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Book Title: Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions
Editors: Manfred E. Streit, Uwe Mummert, Daniel Kiwit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59783-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64124-4Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-59783-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour