Cognitive developments in economics / / edited by Salvatore Rizzello

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Disciplina: 330/.01
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Methodology; Institutional economics; Cognitive science
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 83.05
• Altri autori: RizzelloSalvatore <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: towards a cognitive evolutionary economics; Discrepancies: competing theories and ideologies as cognitive traps: the scientific discovery as puzzle-solving; Cognitive science meets evolutionary theory: what implications does evolutionary psychology have for economic theorising?; Towards a cognitive experimental economics; Accounting for social knowledge in economic analysis: the relevance of Adam Smith's framework ; The making of a behavioural economist: Herbert A. Simon and the early evolution of bounded rationalityThe rhetorical dimensions of bounded rationality: Herbert A. Simon and organizational economics; Cognition, entrepreneurial conceptions and the theory of the firm; Knowledge, understanding and the epistemology of innovative firms; Managing exploitation and exploration; The epistemic foundations of social organizations: a game theoretical approach; Interactive learning and technological knowledge: the localised character of innovation processes ; Cognitive economies and the 'nature of the district'Learning in economics: some Austrian insights; Beliefs, knowledge and equilibrium: a different perspective on Hayek; Guesswork and knowledge in evolutionary economics: Veblen revisited; Problem complexity and problem representation: some implications for the theory of economic institutions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Cognitive Developments in Economics proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision-making and change, to explain economic transactions, and the nature and evolution of organisations and institutions. The book contributes to a large spectrum of economic fields such as consumer theory, economics of the firm, economics of innovation, evolutionary economics and experimental economics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cognitive developments in economics
• ISBN: 0-429-23437-6; 0-415-75407-0; 1-134-40219-8; 1-280-05076-4; 0-203-57990-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450497903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 48.