Economic Theory and Cognitive Science
Microexplanation
$75.95
- Paperback
454 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2007
Summary
In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of related disciplines that are relevant to the day-to-day work of economics-the cognitive and behavioral sciences. It asks whether the increasingly sophisticated techniques of microeconomic analy…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262681681 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262681684 |
| Author: | Don Ross |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 454 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
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Critics Review
–Ken Binmore, Professor of Economics, University College London
“Economists and cognitive scientists have been on a random walk towards one another for two decades now. But it took Don Ross’s book to reveal the straight line that joins these two disciplines and make out of them a social science with all the mathematical beauty of general equilibrium theory and the empirical content of a behavioral science. I doubt that either an economist or a psychologist could have found the path to this stable equilibrium around which to organize both disciplines. It required someone well versed in both the history of economics and decision theory, a combination that only Ross combines. The result is the most important new work in the philosophy of economics in years!”–Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Duke University “The current state-of-the-art in a number of subdisciplines of cognitive science and economics makes questions of integration and cross-border relations more urgent and difficult than usual. Ross’s ambitious, wide-ranging, richly detailed, up-to-date, and carefully argued approach to unifying and organizing the behavioral sciences is therefore especially timely. It is a major contribution to our understanding of those sciences, and an important advance in the philosophy of science as well.” David Spurrett , University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa “The current state of the art in a number of subdisciplines of cognitive science and economics makes questions of integration and cross-border relations more urgent and difficult than usual. Ross’s ambitious, wide-ranging, richly detailed, up-to-date, and carefully argued approach to unifying and organizing the behavioral sciences is therefore especially timely. It is a major contribution to our understanding of those sciences, and an important advance in the philosophy of science as well.”–David Spurrett, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
About The Author
Don Ross
Don Ross is Professor of Economics and Dean of Commerce at the University of Cape Town, and Research Fellow in the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University. He is the author of Economic Theory and Cognitive Science- Microexplanation (MIT Press, 2005), companion volume to Midbrain Mutiny.
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