Economic Theory and Cognitive Science
Subtitle: Microexplanation (Bradford Books)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: June 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780262182461
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Cognitive theory; Economic theory & philosophy; Psychology; Business / Economics / Finance; Economics - Theory; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive science; Economics
First sentence: This book is the first of a two-volume study of the science of economics in relation to other branches of behavioral inquiry, which takes the unusual perspective of not assuming, to begin with, that there is or could be any such science.
Description: "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."--Jacket.