Economic theory and cognitive science : microexplanation / Don Ross
- Bib ID:
- 3525483
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ross, Don, 1962-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005
- x, 444 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0262182467
- Summary:
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"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 analysis have revealed any deep empirical regularities - whether technical improvement represents improvement in any other sense. Casting Daniel Dennett and Kenneth Binmore as its intellectual heroes, the book proposes a comprehensive model of economic theory that, Ross argues, does not supplant but recovers the core neoclassical insights and counters the caricaturish conception of neoclassicism so derided by advocates of behavioral or evolutionary economics."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction : the future of economics and unified science
- 2. Philosophical primer : intentional-stance functionalism and real patterns
- 3. Separate neoclassical microeconomics
- 4. Philosophical issues in revealed preference and utility analysis
- 5. Experimental economics, evolutionary game theory, and the eliminativist option
- 6. Individualism, consciousness, and agency
- 7. Selves and their games
- 8. Rational agency and rational selfhood
- 9. The Robbins-Samuelson argument pattern and its foils.
- Notes:
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- "A Bradford Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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