Cognitive developments in economics

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.
This book 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.