Cognitive Economics An Interdisciplinary Approach
The social sciences study knowing subjects and their interactions. A "cog nitive turn", based on cognitive science, has the potential to enrich these sciences considerably. Cognitive economics belongs within this movement of the social sciences. It aims
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Gmbh
Paul Bourgine Jean-Pierre Nadal Editors
Cognitive Economics An Interdisciplinary Approach With So Figures and 13 Tables
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Dr. Paul Bourgine Ecole Polytechnique CNRS CREA 1, rue Descartes 75005 Paris, France bourgine@ poly.polytechnique.fr Dr. Jean-Pierre Nadal Ecole Normale Superieure LPS (CNRS UMR85SO) and CENECC 24, rue Lhomond 75231 Paris CEDEX 05, France nadal@ lps.ens.fr
ISBN 978-3-642-07336-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-24708-1
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Preface
The social sciences study knowing subjects and their interactions. A "cognitive turn", based on cognitive science, has the potential to enrich these sciences considerably. Cognitive economics belongs within this movement of the social sciences. It aims to take into account the cognitive processes of individuals in economic theory, both on the level of the agent and on the level of their dynamic interactions and the resulting collective phenomena. This is an ambitious research programme that aims to link two levels of complexity: the level of cognitive phenomena as studied and tested by cognitive science, and the level of collective phenomena produced by the economic interactions between agents. Such an objective requires cooperation, not only between economists and cognitive scientists but also with mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists, in order to renew, study and simulate models of dynamical systems involving economic agents and their cognitive mechanisms. The hard core of classical economics is the General Equilibrium Theory, based on the optimising rationality of the agent and on static concepts o
