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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453024503321

Titolo

Cognitive processes and economic behaviour / / edited by Nicola Dimitri, Marcello Basili, and Itzhak Gilboa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-203-92994-2

1-283-88812-2

1-134-36229-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Routledge Siena studies in political economy

Altri autori (Persone)

DimitriNicola

BasiliMarcello <1959->

GilboaItzhak

Disciplina

330/.01/9

Soggetti

Economics - Psychological aspects

Economic man

Cognition

Emotions and cognition

Decision making

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Cognitive Processes and Economic Behaviour; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction; 1. Behavioral finance and markets: Gur Huberman; 2. A non-expected glance at markets: financial models andKnightian uncertainty: Marcello Basili and Fulvio Fontini; 3. On the existence of a ""complete"" possibility structure: Adam Brandenburger; 4. Correlated communication: Nicola Dimitri; 5. A survey of Rule Learning in normal-form games: Dale O. Stahl; 6. Framing and cognition in economics: the bad news and the good: Michael Bacharach

7. Language and economics: Barton L. Lipman8. Learning from cases: a unified framework: Itzhak Gilboa and David Schmeidler; 9. Some elements of the study of language as a cognitive capacity: Luigi Rizzi; 10. Rationality, habits and freedom: Patrick Suppes; 11. For a ""cognitive program"": explicit mental representations for Homo



Oeconomicus (the case of trust): Cristiano Castelfranchi; 12. The structured event complex and the human prefrontal cortex: the economic brain: Jordan Grafman; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years the understanding of the cognitive foundations of economic behavior has become increasingly important. This volume contains contributions from such leading scholars as Adam Brandenburger, Michael Bacharach and Patrick Suppes. It will be of great interest to academics and researchers involved in the field of economics and psychology as well as those interested in political economy more generally.