Cognitive Economics : An Interdisciplinary Approach /

The social sciences study knowing subjects and their interactions. A "cognitive turn", based on cognitive science, has the potential to enrich these sciences considerably. Cognitive economics belongs within this movement of the social sciences. It aims to take into account the cognitive pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bourgine, Paul
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Nadal, Jean-Pierre
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is Cognitive Economics?- Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Bases: Rational Choice under Uncertainty
  • General Equilibrium
  • The Principles of Game Theory
  • Rationality and the Experimental Study of Reasoning
  • Supraclassical Inference without Probability
  • From Natural to Artificial Intelligence: Numerical Processing for Cognitive Tasks
  • An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
  • Spontaneous Symmetry-breaking and the Transition to Disorder in Physics
  • Co-Evolutionist Stochastic Dynamics: Emergence of Power Laws
  • Part II: Research Areas: Topics of Cognitive Economics
  • What is a Collective Belief? Conditional Statements and Directives
  • Choice Axioms for a Positive Value of Information
  • Elements of Viability Theory for the Analysis of Dynamic Economics
  • Stochastic Evolutionary Game Theory
  • The Evolutionary Analysis of Signal Games
  • The Structure of Economic Interaction: Individual and Collective Rationality
  • Experimental Markets: Empirical Data for Theorists
  • Social Interactions in Economic Theory: an Insight from Statistical Mechanics
  • Adjustment and Social Choice
  • From Agent-Based Computational Economics Towards Cognitive Economics
  • Social Networks and Economic Dynamics
  • Coalitions and Networks in Economic Analysis
  • Threshold Phenomena Versus Killer Clusters in Bimodal Competition for Standards
  • Cognitive Efficiency of Social Networks Providing Consumption Advice on Experience Goods
  • The Future of Cognitive Economics
  • Index.