Cognition and economics

The cognitive sciences, having emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, are recently experiencing a spectacular renewal which cannot leave unaffected any discipline that deals with human behavior. The primary motivation for our project has been to weigh up the impact that this ongoing re...

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Other Authors Krecké, Elisabeth, Krecké, Carine, Koppl, Roger G.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
SeriesAdvances in Austrian economics ; v. 9.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504652
ISSN1529-2134 ;
DOI10.1016/S1529-2134(2006)9
Physical Description1 online resource (284 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to a cognitive methodology in economics / Elisabeth Krecké, Carine Krecké
  • Instinct and habit before reason : comparing the views of John Dewey, Friedrich Hayek and Thorstein Veblen / Geoffrey M. Hodgson
  • Elements of a cognitive theory of the firm / Bart Nooteboom
  • Austrian theory of entrepreneurship meets the social science and bioeconomics of the ethnically homogeneous middleman group / Janet T. Landa
  • Does the sensory order / William N. Butos, Roger G. Koppl
  • The anti-foundational dilemma : normative implications for the economic analysis of law / Elisabeth Krecké, Carine Krecké
  • Alfred Marshall meets law and economics : rationality, norms, and theories as tendency statements / Steven G. Medema
  • Cognitive theory as the ground of political theory in Plato, Popper, Dewey, and Hayek / Richard A. Posner
  • Note on behavioral economics / Nick Schandler
  • Science and market as adaptive classifying systems / Thomas J. McQuade
  • Hayek's theory of knowledge and behavioural finance / Alfons Cortés, Salvatore Rizzello.