Cognitive Processes and Economic Behaviour / Edition 1

by Marcello Basili, Nicola Dimitri, ITZHAK GILBOA

Overview

In recent years the understanding of the cognitive foundations of economic behavior has become increasingly important. This volume contains contributions from such leading scholars as Adam Brandenburger, Michael Bacharach and Patrick Suppes. It will be of great interest to academics and researchers involved in the field of economics and psychology as well as those interested in political economy more generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415758611
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2015
Series:	Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nicola Dimitri is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Siena, Italy.
Marchello Basili is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, Italy.
Itzhak Gilboa is Professor of Economics at TEl-Aviv University, Israel.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Behavioral Finance and Markets, Gur Huberman
2. A Non-Expected Glance at Markets: Financial Models and Knightian Uncertainty, Marcello Basili and Fulvio Fontini
3. On Existence of a 'Complete' Possibility Structure, Adam Brandenburger
4. Correlated Communication, Nicola Dimitri
5. A Survey of Rule Learning in Normal-Form Games, Dale Stahl
6. Framing and Cognition in Economics: The Bad News and the Good, Michael Bacharach
7. Language and Economics, Barton Lipman
8. Learning from Cases: A Unified Framework, Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler
9. Some Elements of the Study of Language as a Cognitive Capacity, Luigi Rizzi
10. Rationality and Freedom, Patrick Suppes
11. For a 'Cognitive Program. Explicity Mental Representations for Homo Oeconomicus (The Case of Trust), Cristiano Castelfranchi
12. The Structered Event Complex and the Human Prefrontal Cortex: The Economic Brain, Jordan Grafman